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Title
D9223-2
Date(s)
- 1939-12-09 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Roy Archer was the jockey for "Sure Shot", the turkey entered by the Archer's Olympic Store, in the First 38th Street Boosters' Turkey Derby. Held on Saturday December 16, 1939, 3,000 cheering spectators watched as 30 turkeys, controlled by their jockeys, raced down 38th Street from G Street to Yakima. Archer's candy store was at 3817 So. Yakima. (Ryan's Weekly). (TNT 12/15/1939 p.6)
Confectioneries--Tacoma--1930-1940; Turkeys; Archer's Olympic Store (Tacoma)