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| Date: | 08 17 1963 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Grand Champion soap box coaster crossing the finish line. |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | The Soap Box Derby held on East Washington Avenue leading from the Wisconsin State Capitol. Shown are two boys in their racers on the starting ramp. Starte... |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | A contestant in Madison's Soap Box Derby in his racer on the starting ramp with crowd in the background. The Derby was held on East Washington Avenue leadi... |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | Soap Box Derby race cars line up while participants and spectators look at the cars. Madison's Derby was held on East Washington Avenue leading from the Wi... |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Luanne Unbehaun of Richland Center is crowned Madison Soap Box Derby Princess by beauty queen Jackie Stafford. Looking on at right is Lee Baron of Baron's ... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby view of the crowd watching the race in front of Water Works, corner of East Gorham and North Hancock Streets. Motorcycle Officer, C.... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Cars line up at Shell Oil service pits on E. Gorham Street during the Madison Soap Box Derby. Drivers, and a crowd of people on the sidewalk are looking on... |
| Date: | 07 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Seventy-six derby car drivers march behind leader Frankie Meyers on East Gorham Street during the Soap Box Derby Parade of Youth. |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | The car and driver that won the Madison Soap Box Derby in 1957 at the starting line. The car is called "Phillipson Garage" and the driver is Van Steiner of... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the starting ramp for the Madison Soap Box Derby on East Washington Avenue, including the first block of South Butler Street. Van Steiner ... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Junior Boy Scout Drum & Bugle Corps march in the pre-Soap Box Derby race parade on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Soap box derby contestants parade up East Washington Avenue before the race to receive their entry prize, a tool kit. |
| Date: | 08 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Roger Gabbei, age 12, competed in the Madison soap box derby held on Gorham Street. He carried a spare wheel in case of a crackup. Roger won the class B ti... |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of spectators in the grandstands at Derby Downs watching three racers participate in the All-American Soap Box Derby. |
| Date: | 07 1951 |
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| Description: | 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion Warren Slightam about to compete in an exhibition race at the 1951 Madison soap box derby on Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Fritz Ragatz waiting in line to race his WMTV-sponsored car on Midvale Avenue at the Madison soap box derby. |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Two racers streak down the soap box derby track on E. Gorham Street as a large crowd watches from behind a fence along the sidewalk. |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | View from behind of a soap box racer in the starting gate at the top of the E. Gorham Street hill between N. Butler and N. Pinckney Streets. A man with a f... |
| Date: | 07 19 1953 |
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| Description: | Soap box racers head down a hill on S. Midvale Boulevard as a large group of spectators are watching from behind a fence. 1953 was the first year Madison's... |
| Date: | 07 19 1953 |
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| Description: | Two soap box racers leave the starting gate on their way down the hill on S. Midvale Boulevard. A few spectators can be seen on both sides of the starting ... |
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