Little Peppy's Racing Album

The pictures that follow are from an old fashioned, leather-bound photo album. The pages are heavy black paper, the pictures are held in with black corner mounts (the kind you had to lick to get them to stick), with captions written in white ink. Most of the handwriting in the album was that of the fellow most folks in the Greater Puget Sound area knew as Peppy, or Big Peppy. My two bothers and I knew know of him as Grampa, but never had the pleasure of knowing him.

What we did have was the photo album he put together of his sons' motorcycle racing. Through that we knew how very proud he was of his two sons, and the support he and Gramma gave them in their endevours.

Some of the folks in the following pictures are unidentified. If you know who they are, drop us a line and tell us.

Bellingham Time Trials	Bellingham Time Trials June 23, 1946	Cow Bell Run Oct 28, 1945	Death Head Derby	Homestead Hill
Jolly Roger Motocycle Club Meet Sept 16, 1945	Jolly Roger Motocycle Club Meet, May 19, 1946	Jolly Roger Motocycle Club Others	Large pictures	Lewiston Hill Climb
Mud Run 10 Feb 1946 & April 2, 1951	Other Photos	Peppan Off-track	Piper Canyon Hill 1944	Queen City Motocycle ClubMeet 29 Jul 1945
Queen City Motorcycle Time Trials June 2, 1946	Queen City Mud Run April 11, 1948	Set A	Short track Race Horse Park	Silverdale June 1945
Silverdale Sept 30, 1945	Silverdale 1947	Silverlake Time trials	Tacoma 1953	Tacoma Motorcycle Club track in Puyallup

As kids, we bragged about Daddy's racing days, dragging the big heavy album out and backing the words with pictures. Then one day, someone my brother knew asked if he could borrow the album. Seeing no problem with it, Don said, "Yeah sure."

I do wish you could see ALL the pictures, in the condition we remember them, but when the album eventually made its way home, not only were there pictures missing, but there was significant water-damage . . . pictures stuck to pictures. I do not know what possessed the borrower of the photo album, but if you should see a picture that looks like it belongs with those presented here, please send it home.

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