A large collection of photos from Aloha's travels around the world are waiting to be seen. Visit the gallery to begin your own journey!
"Just a Car Guy" blog by Jesse
Press Release: "Unsolved Celebrity Murder Mystery Still Haunts Long Beach Harbor
Spies, Stars, Scandal Surround Nearly 80-Year Old Wanderwell Case"
Press Release: "Aloha Wanderwell: First Woman to Travel around the World in an Automobile"
Hemming's Motor News
Motoring Museums' Lighthouse by Pál Négyesi
TModelman.com by Dan Treace
Aloha Wanderwell was born Idris Galcia Hall on October 13, 1906 in Winnipeg, the daughter of British Army reservist Herbert Hall and Margaret Headley Hall. After her father was killed in action at Ypres in June 1917, her mother moved Idris and her younger sister to Europe. As the Great War drew to a close, Idris was enrolled in a convent school in France.
Devastated by the death of her father, young Idris displayed a restless spirit and was constantly at odds with her superiors at the convent school, who tried in vain to transform the 6 foot tall self-described "tomboy" into a proper young lady. Instead, inspired by the fantastic tales she read in her father's beloved collection of boyhood books, Idris dreamed of travel, adventure, and intrigue in far-flung corners of the globe.
In 1922, when she was 16, an advertisement in the Riviera edition of the Paris Herald caught her eye:
"Brains, Beauty & Breeches - World Tour Offer For Lucky Young Woman.... Wanted to join an expedition...Asia, Africa...."
We are looking to preserve the Wanderwell Expedition's Nitrate Films. Please contact us.
All the films are in nitrate with a couple in 16mm. All films need to be transferred to HD immediately.
Please help us to save these historical films.
Contact: AlohaWanderwell@cox.net
(888)921-4242
