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- Description:
- Jack Schafer of the Michigan-based Schafer's Peter Pan Bakery owned several speedboats named "Such Crust." The Such Crust V made a featured appearance at the American Powerboating races held in Lansing on the Grand River in May, 1953. A special derrick was required to get it in and out of the water for its course between the Logan (MLK) Street bridge and the Wavery Street bridge. Ten thousand were estimated to have viewed the races.
- Date Created:
- 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Text on back of photo reads: "Renick Parkey, Columbus, Ohio, roars up a steep and sandy hill near West Branch, Michigan in the early hours of the morning as he rides to third-place honors in the Class A Solo event of the 1951 National Jack Pine Endurance Run." The 25th annual Jack Pine 507-mile motorcycle race was sponsored by the State Journal over Labor Day weekend in 1951. The course went from Lansing to West Branch and back over Northern Michigan's rough jack pine plains and hills.
- Date Created:
- 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Text on back of photo reads: "Renick Parkey, Columbus, Ohio, roars up a steep and sandy hill near West Branch, Michigan in the early hours of the morning as he rides to third-place honors in the Class A Solo event of the 1951 National Jack Pine Endurance Run." The 25th annual Jack Pine 507-mile motorcycle race was sponsored by the State Journal over Labor Day weekend in 1951. The course went from Lansing to West Branch and back over Northern Michigan's rough jack pine plains and hills.
- Date Created:
- 1951-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Jack Schafer of the Michigan-based Schafer's Peter Pan Bakery owned several speedboats named "Such Crust." The Such Crust V made a featured appearance at the American Powerboating races held in Lansing on the Grand River in May, 1953. A special derrick was required to get it in and out of the water for its course between the Logan (MLK) Street bridge and the Wavery Street bridge. Ten thousand were estimated to have viewed the races.
- Date Created:
- 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino Photograph Collection
