A few years ago, I found three old photo albums at an antique store and picked them up without even looking inside. When I got home with them and started flipping the pages, I was thrilled to find several photos of a man and his race car. After some research, I was able to identify the driver as local OKC resident Earl Swan, who participated in the 1915 Southwest Sweepstakes Grand Prix race in Oklahoma City. If you'd like to read more about this little-known history, go here:
okcmod.com/2019/09/remembering-the-southwest-sweepstakes-...
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A few years ago, I found three old photo albums at an antique store and picked them up without even looking inside. When I got home with them and started flipping the pages, I was thrilled to find several photos of a man and his
race car. After some research, I was able to identify the driver as local OKC resident Earl Swan, who participated in the 1915 Southwest Sweepstakes Grand Prix race in Oklahoma City. If you'd like to read more about this little-known history, go here:
okcmod.com/2019/09/remembering-the-southwest-sweepstakes-...
Tags: earl swan southwest sweepstakes oklahoma history 1915 found photo photograph album race car okc city grand prix nostalgia past lives 20th century vernacular man driver cigar vintage
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A few years ago, I found three old photo albums at an antique store and picked them up without even looking inside. When I got home with them and started flipping the pages, I was thrilled to find several photos of a man and his race car. After some research, I was able to identify the driver as local OKC resident Earl Swan, who participated in the 1915 Southwest Sweepstakes Grand Prix race in Oklahoma City. If you'd like to read more about this little-known history, go here:
okcmod.com/2019/09/remembering-the-southwest-sweepstakes-...
Tags: earl swan southwest sweepstakes oklahoma history 1915 found photo photograph album race car okc city grand prix nostalgia past lives 20th century vernacular man vintage
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Wakita, OK
1950s
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Recently, I came across several gorgeous images of a girls' camp from the 1930's. "Kerrville" was stamped on the back of one of the photos, so I assumed this camp was somewhere in the Hill Country in Texas. Bingo! A few minutes of searching on the internet, and I found Camp Waldemar, which has been around since 1929 and is still in operation today:
www.waldemar.com/Content/AboutUs/AboutUs.asp?Link=History
If you look at the History section, you'll see old photos with the same wooden fence that is featured so prominently in my vintage snaps. Also, look at the Map on the website, and you'll see just how gorgeous this camp is today. Wish I had gone here as a kid!
I contacted the director of the camp, who enthusiastically confirmed that these images are of Camp Waldemar. Now that I've scanned them, I think I'm going to send the original images to her to keep in their archive. It seems that they belong back at Waldemar somehow.
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