Upson County GaArchives Photo place.....Soap Box Derby  1947
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One of my favorite memories is the construction of my soap box.
We would go to the dump where the Martha Mills hauled all the waste from the
mill and get the wheels from the old bobbin carts. We would use the wheels
and scrap wood to build a cart to roll down the many hills in the mill
village.
Sometimes we were lucky and found a wooden box that could be converted
easily to a race car, and race we would down the hills. It is a wonder that
we were not all killed. There was one boy who did get killed when he ran
into a car.


I am attaching a photo of a Soap Box Race in 1947.
The photo came from the Silvertown Cord, a publication published by the
Martha Mills.


Does anyone else remember these cars? Are there any other pictures??

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