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The Era of the Oswego Dragway

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.

In any good traveling western, some of the characters die. - Peter Fonda 

 Traction Masters - Aurora Car Club

Bob Baker - Club President, Oswego Dragway Official

Jim Barkdoll, Jack Buckley,

Sam Casino - Oswego Official (brother Mike),

John Curry,

Wally Duy (Do eh),

Cliff Esser - Raced 57' Corvette,

Don Faulhaber,

Dave & Paul* Greiter,

Gene Livingston,

Rich Logue Sr.,

Paul McPeake,

Jim Greneer "Norton",

Joel Johnson,

Denny Jordan,

Bernie Kratch (helped me put this list together),

Chuck Nila,

Ronnie Olson,

Dick Parke,

Kent Populorum,

Jim Spencer,

Art Steigliter,

Marty Schwamberger,

Jack Weisseborn,

Charlie Wyeth (Surge Milker?)

(*possibly deceased)

Corrections, submissions, leads, phone numbers, email addresses, etc. are welcome

(Apologies in advance for misspelling, mispronunciation, mis-inclusion, absence, and slander (Or is it libel?))

 

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