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The Mission: To research, record and preserve the personal histories of the young people from here in the Fox Valley, the Midwest, who played a vital role in merging land speed racing and hot rodding creating modern drag racing. And simultaneously noting the positive benefits that accrued to the lives and avocations of these young people by the very nature of their activities and labors at the track. Jay Thompson

I had no idea it would get as big as it did, but I didn't see any reason for it not to always be a good moneymaker. 

(On drag racing) - C. J. Hart, 1981 (He says he didn't invent drag racing around 1950)

"Well the long awaited Jerry Klein Drag Racing Film has finally arrived."

From letter to Jay Thompson from Jerry Klein - 2005

Jerry Klein

Scenes from Jerry Klein's life, Chapter Two and others from the 1950's and 1960's.

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Official ERA Biography Forms 

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Aurora Historical Society's David L. Pierce History Center

Aurora Regional Fire Museum

Little White School House Museum - Oswego

The ‘Era’ Exhibit at the Oswego Drag Strip Festival, Downtown Oswego. Fri 4 - 8pm, Sat 12 - 8pm, Sun 12 - 4pm,  September 15-17, 2006. The next “Era” event will be held in conjunction with the 1st Annual Oswego Drag Strip Days that is September 16-17, 2006. The “Era” is an interactive, multi-media, guest racers, volunteer-enhanced exhibit recalling the 1950’s when young people from Fox Valley played a vital role in the evolution of land-speed racing and hot rodding to create modern drag racing. In fact we now believe that the Oswego Dragway is either the first, or one of the very first, privately-owned, purpose-built drag strips in the U.S. Note that for convenience the “Era” exhibit will also be open 4-8pm on Friday in addition to the Saturday and Sunday of the Drag Strip Days Festival in the middle of all of the Drag Days activities.

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