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Posted: Wednesday Oct 18th, 2006 04:08 AM |
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| NEED YOUR HELP FOLKS!! THIS MAY EVEN BE DOWN CURT K'S NECK OF THE WOODS!! MY DAD HAROLD NICHOLAS DROVE THE #55 CAR TEAMED UP WITH LAVER ROOT WHO ALSO USE TO ANNOUNCE AT SKY VALLEY. ALL WE HAVE FOR THE FAMILY IS A COUPLE PICTURES OF THE CAR IN THE YARD AND A PICTURE I GOT FROM I THINK SHIRLEY DRAPER (NOW THERE IS AN OLD NAME FROM THE PAST-SHIRLEY COULD OUT DRIVE MOST MEN AND WAS FEARED IN THE OLD POWDER PUFF DAYS!!) THAT HUNG IN THE TAVERN IN DOWNTOWN MONROE WITH MANY OF THE EARLY DRIVERS THAT RACED. WOULD APPRECIATE IF ANYONE HAD ANY LUCK ON THIS. WHAT A DREAM COME TRUE TO YAK WITH OTHERS THAT REMEMBER THE TRUE OPEN WHEEK DAYS WHEN BEFORE THE OUTLAWS YOU CUT YOUR TEETH AT SKY VALLEY, WENT TO SKAGIT THEN WRA.KELLY
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CurtK
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Posted: Wednesday Oct 18th, 2006 04:29 AM |
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| Kelly that tavern was Skip's and I see his daughter almost every week, her name is Linda and she works at Ixtapa in Monroe. I believe that when Skip died she gave most of the old racing photos to my dad and he passed them on to somebody after looking at them. She had 6-8 big albums that used to be in the tavern.....I'll see if I can find out where they ended up.
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SAFEWAY KELLY
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Posted: Wednesday Oct 18th, 2006 04:40 AM |
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| THAT IS THE PICTURE I GOT, THOUGHT YOUR DAD MAY HAVE A PICTURE OF A GROUP OF CARS RACING THAT MAY HAVE HIS IN THE GROUP? SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR DADS PASSING. HE WAS A TRUE SKY VALLEY HISTORIAN!! I WAS CAMPING FOR 2 WEEKS AND HEARD ABOUT IT FROM LINDA (BARNET) KECK WHO IS A TEACHER AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL I WORK AT IN STANWOOD.
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Posted: Wednesday Oct 18th, 2006 04:46 AM |
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| Linda's dad Chuck, my dad, Gene Guptill and another guy that went to high school in Monroe were joined at the hip for years......the Barnett's lived next door to the Kern's on Park Lane in Monroe. Small world.....lol.
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Posted: Saturday Oct 21st, 2006 03:02 AM |
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| Kelly, I had some super 8mm movies transfered to VHS and on this video I have a 55 car that wins a trophy dash and gives the trophy queen a huge smooch. The footage has to be from the late 50's im not sure though. The car is black with gray numbers and the driver wheres white clothes and a red bandana im guessing for the horrific dust. The hole in turn 1 is clearly evident in these videos.
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SAFEWAY KELLY
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Posted: Saturday Oct 21st, 2006 03:07 AM |
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| TOM,WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DATE WAS? WAS IT FROM DOWN BY THE LEWIS STREET BRIDGE OR ON THE HILL. IF YOU TELL ME WHAT THE COST OF PRINTING TOW COPIES, I WOULD HAVE THE CHECK IN THE MAIL TOMORROW AS THIS WOULD BE THE BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER FOR MY DAD!!KELLY
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Posted: Saturday Oct 21st, 2006 03:12 AM |
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On the hill.
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SAFEWAY KELLY
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Posted: Saturday Oct 21st, 2006 03:20 AM |
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| TOM,I JUST TALKED TO MY DAD AND HIS CAR WAS #55 AND THE SPONSOR WAS SULLIVAN JEWELERS AND UNION 76 ON THE SIDE.
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Posted: Saturday Oct 21st, 2006 03:28 AM |
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| Remember now these videos are from the 50's im lucky to tell ya the car is black and the number is 55. I know one of the cars in the trophy dash is driven by Jim Miller from Mt Lk Terrace.
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Posted: Saturday Oct 21st, 2006 04:15 AM |
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| DAD TOLD ME HIS CAR WAS A 36 FORD COUP
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Posted: Saturday Oct 21st, 2006 02:58 PM |
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| what color?
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Posted: Monday Oct 23rd, 2006 10:52 PM |
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| BLACK WITH ORANGE ROLL BARS I BELIEVE HE SAID.
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Posted: Wednesday Oct 25th, 2006 05:25 AM |
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| I bet this segment has your dad! How cool would that be? Do you have an email address you could post?
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Posted: Wednesday Oct 25th, 2006 06:11 AM |
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| MY E-MAIL IS KNICHOLAS@STANWOOD.WEDNET.EDU MAILING ADDRESS IS KELLY NICHOLAS, 27725 OLD PACIFIC HWY, STANWOOD WASHINGTON 98292 PHONE IS 360-939-0704 FOR THOSE THAT HAVE ANY IDEAS, WHEREABOUTS OF OLD CARS FOR OLDTIMERS NIGHT YOU CAN E-MAIL ME THIS WAY.KELLY
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Jeepasaurusrex
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Posted: Saturday Nov 4th, 2006 05:55 AM |
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My dad reciently found some old 8mm video of sky valley and monroe from when he raced there. Anyone know where to get it put on DVD? 
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Posted: Saturday Nov 4th, 2006 06:09 AM |
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| WHAT YEARS WERE THEY FROM? PM TOM- I THINK HE DID THE SAME-WOULD LIKE TO SEE OR PAY FOR THE COST OF AN EXTRA DVD
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Posted: Sunday Nov 5th, 2006 12:55 AM |
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| There is a place in Stanwood now that does that sort of work. Photo and Sound Saving, 360-629-3883.
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Posted: Sunday Nov 5th, 2006 10:11 PM |
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Ill let him know. Since I live out by Stanwood now, so thats an option.
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Posted: Sunday Nov 5th, 2006 10:24 PM |
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| I know right where it is so can give you directions if you need it, also they always have specials in one of the coupon fliers, I will watch for it and let you know.
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Posted: Friday Dec 1st, 2006 11:05 PM |
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| THANK-YOU TO WESCO DRIVER RALLY ROOT FOR SENDING ME SOME PICTURES OF HIS DAD LAVER ROOT AND MY DAD STANDING IN FRONT OF THEIR NUMBER #55 CAR FROM SKY VALLEY. RALLY'S SISTER WHO LIVES IN TEXAS SENT HIM THE PICTURES TAKEN AROUND 1959 OR "60 WITH THE FIRST COLOR CAMERA TO COME OUT. I WILL TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO POST. ALSO FOR THOSE OF YOU YOUNG WESCO DRIVERS, AND I WAS IN THE STANDS TO WITNESS THIS, ASK RALLY ABOUT THIS!! WHEN HE DROVE JALOPIES AT SKY VALLEY SPEEDWAY AROUND 1975, HE TIMED HIS CAR, AND HE WAS SO UNHAPPY ABOUT HIS TIME IN AND HOW THE CAR WAS HANDLING, AS THE ANNOUCER READ HIS FINAL TIME, RALLY MADE A HARD RIGHT OUT THE PIT GATE, DROVE DOWN THE PARKING LOT PAST THE FANS ARRIVING AT THE TRACK, DOWN THE HILL, ACROSS HIGHWAY 2, THRU THE MIDDLE OF THE TOWN OF MONROE AND TO HIS HOUSE. YOU SURE COULDN'T DO THAT TODAY!!
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 1st, 2007 06:39 PM |
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| Now THAT must have been a sight!
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SAFEWAY KELLY
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Posted: Friday Jan 18th, 2008 06:23 AM |
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Were you ever able to get the film on DVD? I would love to buy a copy from you. Who was your dad that raced?
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