Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Sandy Allen, 1955-2008


Sandy Allen, at seven foot seven and a quarter inches the tallest woman in the world, dead at the age of 53. Allen died at a nursing home in Shelbyville, Indiana. Springfield, once again, loses out.

I suspect that 53 is a pretty good age for someone of such outsize proportions. Robert Wadlow made it only to 22.

4 comments:

Marshall said...

Wadlow was 22? He looks 50 in that photo.

Tom Nawrocki said...

He also doesn't look anything like 8'11", either, but I guess the camera can play tricks on us.

Marshall said...

I dearly hope so, because I look exactly like Robert Earl Hughes in current photos.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, that's not Robert Waldow in the pictures.
they were just demonstrating how tall Allen is