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- Palm Springs    March, 1955 -

Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955   Program Cover    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     Officials    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     Course "map"

Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     Entry List Cover Page    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     Entry List,  Page  Two    (Look at the driver of car #23)Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     Entry List,  Page  Three    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     Entry List,  Page  Four
On the first "Official Entry List" page you will see car #23, driver "Dean, Jas."
Click HERE to see a photo of Jas. Dean at Palm Springs
Click HERE to see a concise biography courtesy of "ronin-37".
Click HERE to see notes about other interesting names on the entry list and officials pages.


Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     "The Big Why?"    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     Trophies, Classes, Flags, Lap time conversion chart    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     "Racing by Formula"    

Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     Schedule of events  Page OneThumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     Schedule of events page two

Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     Movie Advert for "The Racers"    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     "Who Said Racing is Easy?"    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     The Art of Non-participation"    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     "Birth Of A Sport", Cal Club membership application

Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955    Kurtis 500-M advertisement    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     "A Class For Each Car"    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     "The Men In The Pits"    Thumbnail: Palm Springs Airport   March, 1955     "Tips To The Spectators"

Follow-up: "Tips To Spectators"

This picture was sent by Bob Bashor. He wrote:

"This is a photo of my dad, Archie (Larry) Bashor and his friend both flagmen at an MG race in Palm Springs in 1954 or 1955. As the car approached the turn my dad saw the car lose control and at the last second, he grabbed his friend and pulled him away from the car. Unfortunately they were both hit by the back of the car and my dad suffered the most serious injuries. He had his foot wound up by the knock-off on the wheel and then it threw him into his friend and they both went flying through the air. He also suffered a broken pelvis and a ruptured spleen. He was hospitalized at Long Beach Community Hospital for almost a year while they removed shattered bones in his foot and battled the skin and bone infections. This picture just happened to be taken by one of the local newspapers ...

"This was just one of many bad experiences that he endured over his full life. He was born in 1923 and died of natural causes at 74 years of age. He grew up in Bellflower, Ca., one of his good friends was Speed Reeves (Norm Reeves). Both of them loved fast motorcycles and use to race through Bellflower in the early sixties. Norm Reeves would get Honda prototypes from Japan. Some of them were called Honda/Benly."



Palm Springs Airport      Coachella Valley, California      March, 1955


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