1 Most stair lifts are used indoors; outdoor models tend to be at the higher end of the price range. 2  Options include adjustable seat and footrest heights, folding seats and rests to save space, greater weight capacity (usually 300 pounds but can be 375-500 pounds) and a security lock to limit who can use the chair lift.
Burt Lancaster played him in the 1951 movie Jim Thorpe, All-American. Thorpe tried to develop a nightclub act in the early 1950s. After he underwent an operation for lip cancer in November 1951, newspapers reported that he was penniless.
King Gustav V of Sweden told Thorpe: Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world.. James Francis Thorpe was born on May 28, 1887 in a one-room cabin near Prague, Oklahoma. Although there is much confusion on Thorpe's date of birth, this is the date according to his estate.He was born to Hiram Thorpe, a farmer, and Mary James, a Pottawatomie Indian and descendant of the last great Sauk and Fox chief Black Hawk, a noted warrior and athlete.escribing Jim Thorpe as a great athlete would be doing him a severe injustice. A better description would be calling him the greatest athlete of the 20th Century.