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Title: Track project under way
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection;
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated October 29, 1956 reads "Ground-breaking ceremonies for a new quarter-mile midget auto-motorcycle race track at Agoura was beautified Friday by Vickie Sacre, shown here about to turn the first spadeful of earth. The track, to be known as Midgetapolis (Miss Sacre is Miss Midgetapolis) is to be ready by Nov. 11. From left are Bill Graham, Lester Sommerville, Jimmy Williams, general manager, Miss Sacre, and Bill Armstrong, owner-promoter."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Identifier: 00162568
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d065_f13_i18
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/132871
Subject: Agoura Speedway
Beauty contestants
Businessmen
Women
Men
Ground breaking ceremonies
Building sites
Racetracks (Automobile racing)
Shovels
Automobiles
Agoura Hills (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Time Period: 1951-1960

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