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| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | The starter, Glen (Pat) Holmes ,is holding the checkered flag at the starting ramp of the Soap Box Derby on Gorham Street as two cars prepare to take off. ... |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby winner Larry Laverty sits in his racer while holding his trophy. His family is gathered around him. The race was held on East Gorham... |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Ralph Hult, president of Hult's garage and the co-sponsor of the Madison Soap Box Derby, poses with the top winners. At left is champion Larry Laverty who ... |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Larry Laverty, a Mineral Point farm boy and the champion of the Madison Soap Box Derby, sits in his racer. He will go to Akron, Ohio to compete in the All ... |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby starter, Glen (Pat) Holmes, watches as two racers go down the East Gorham Street hill in front of the crowd watching the race. |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of nine Madison street department workers who have prepared the derby hill for the Soap Box Derby for the past seven years. Kneeling, left t... |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Fifteen derby boys and four adults from Mineral Point who came to Madison for the Madison Soap Box Derby are standing in front of their school bus. Larry L... |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Dick Dummershausen, seated in his racer, is weighed prior to the Madison Soap Box Derby. The official weighmaster is Joe Marx (right) from Toledo Scales Co... |
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