Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

Pedestrianism, The Enormously Popular 19th Century Sport Where People Went For Really Long Walks


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For National Take A Hike Day, we look back at a time in the 1800s when huge crowds bought tickets to see people walk around in loops for days at a time. Plus: for National Homemade Bread Day, the story of the bakery that made an eight-foot-long loaf for "I Love Lucy."

The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football (BBC) 

How Competitive Walking Captivated Georgian Britain (Atlas Obscura)

I Love Lucy The Complete Picture History of the Most Popular TV Show Ever, Authorized by the Lucille Ball Estate by Michael McClay (via Google Books)


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