Midget Photos Taken at Tulsa, Oklahoma

From the Late 1940s to the Early 1950s

From the Photo Collection of Floyd Seago

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#92 Chic Chicaletto

 

 

 

Guy “Mac” McHenry in one of the Gibson Offys in 1950

 

 

 

 

 If you can identify any of these midgets or drivers taken at the Tulsa fairgrounds in 1946, please contact Bob Lawrence at: sprintguy @ cox.net – Gene Barton photo

 

 

 

The J. W. Hostler #44 was taken c1949.  The numbers on this midget were made from 24 caret gold leaf.  Click your mouse on the photo to see a different of this midget taken the same day.

 

 

 

 This phot of Angelo Howerton in the J. W. Hostler #44 was taken c1949.  The numbers on this midget were made from 24 caret gold leaf.  Click your mouse on the photo to see a different angle of Howerton seated in this midget.

 

 

 

The J. W. Hostler #44 and tow car c1949.

 

 

 

Junior Howerton in his Ford V8-60 Lamesa midget

Gene Barton photo

 

 

 

The aftermath of a crash by Angelo Howerton

 

 

 

Angelo Howerton’s last crash

 

 

 

 

Carl Oliver with a midget he built 

 

 

 

 

 Ernie Booth in his own midget in 1946

 

 

 

 

  Ernie Booth in his own midget in 1946.  Click your mouse on the photo to see still another of Booth in this same midget.

 

 

 

George Koch in a Felix Graves owned midget.  Koch was fatally injured in a crash later that same night.  Click your mouse on the photo to see another of Koch in this same midget – Gene Barton photo

 

 

 

Henry Miller was uninjured when he stuffed this midget under the grandstand

 

 

 

Junior Howerton in 1950 – Gene Barton photo

 

 

 

Loyes Harris visiting from Dallas, Texas

 

 

 

Clarence Merritt finishing up a time trial lap at the Tulsa fairgrounds in 1946 – Gene Barton photo

 

 

 

If you can identify this midget, please contact Bob Lawrence at: sprintguy @ cox.net

 

 

 

Clarence Merritt is on the pole with Ralph Outcalt on the outside of the front row in this race at the Tulsa fairgrounds in 1946 – Gene Barton photo

 

 

 

Harold “Happy” Hart

 

 

 

 

 This photo was taken in 1947.  If you can identify any of these midgets, please contact Bob Lawrence at: sprintguy @ cox.net.

 

 

 

 

#32 Dick Word from San Antonio, Texas; #33 Jay King; and #1 Loyes Harris of Dallas, Texas.  This photo was taken in 1947.

 

 

 

 

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