Midget Photos Taken in

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s

From the Photo Collection of Floyd Seago

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Marcel St. Cricq, Jr. in the #11 Trammel Kurtis Kraft Offy with race promoters Ray and O. D. Lavely at Taft Stadium in 1947

 

 

Please contact Bob Lawrence if you can identify either this midget or driver that visited from San Antonio, Texas

 

 

#54 Tommy Vardeman in 1950.  This photo was taken before he flipped it during time trials.

 

 

#7 Jimmy Reece on the inside of the row at left and J. D. “Lover Boy” Parks in the #66 Bynum Offy to his outside in 1950.

 

 

#68 Lloyd Ruby at the old fairgrounds on the east side of Oklahoma City in 1950.

 

 

Jack Penwell of Tulsa with his own Ford V8-60 in 1950. 

 

 

Jack Penwell in 1950.  Click your mouse on the photo to see another of Penwell during time trials.

 

 

#91 Bill Homeler of Houston, Texas on the pole in the Romell Offy; #97 Russ Cofer of Oklahoma City on the outside of the front row; #7 Jimmy Reece on the inside of the second row; #33 Angelo Howerton of Tulsa on the outside of the second row; #54a Tommy Vardeman on the inside of the third row; and #82 Jack Penwell of Tulsa on the outside of the third row in this photo taken in 1950.  Click your mouse on the photo to see another of this same race lineup taken just moments from when this one was taken.

 

 

Leland Musick in the Catfish #19 on the pole; Bill Homeler in the Romell Offy outside of the front row; Judge Cecil Holt a.k.a. “Cecil Green” in the M. A. Walker Offy #18 on the outside of the second row; and #68 Lloyd Ruby of Wichita Falls, Texas on the outside of the third row in this photo taken in 1950.

 

 

Guy “Mac” McHenry in the #93 Gibson Offy during the tropy dash in 1950.  Click your mouse on the photo to see another of McHenry in this same midget.

 

 

The #97 Russ Cofer Offy in 1950

 

 

Cotton Musick in 1950

 

 

J. D. “Lover Boy” Parks in the #66 Bynum Offy during time trials in 1950

 

 

Jud Larson left and Buzz Barton on the right at the old fairgrounds racetrack on the east side of Oklahoma City in 1950

 

 

 

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