[Eddie Gossage (left) and Danny "The Dude" Lasoski (right) celebrating]

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Photograph of Eddie Gossage (left) and Danny "The Dude" Lasoski (right) celebrating Lasoski's win at the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track. Gossage wears a white ballcap with a multi-colored logo on it, a blue button-up shirt, black pants, a black belt, and a black jacket. He raises his right hand in a fist as he smiles at the camera. Lasoski also wears a white ballcap with a logo on it, plus a white jumpsuit with "Roth" on the chest in blue-outlined purple letters and "Motorsports" in black below it. Above the waist of the jumpsuit is "Beef Packers" in blue. … continued below

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1 photograph : col. ; 5 x 7 in.

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Creator: Unknown. March 31, 2000.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Denton Chamber of Commerce Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Special Collections to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 17 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Photograph of Eddie Gossage (left) and Danny "The Dude" Lasoski (right) celebrating Lasoski's win at the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track. Gossage wears a white ballcap with a multi-colored logo on it, a blue button-up shirt, black pants, a black belt, and a black jacket. He raises his right hand in a fist as he smiles at the camera. Lasoski also wears a white ballcap with a logo on it, plus a white jumpsuit with "Roth" on the chest in blue-outlined purple letters and "Motorsports" in black below it. Above the waist of the jumpsuit is "Beef Packers" in blue. Lasoski holds his trophy above his head, an object with a black rectangular base that holds up a glass shape of Texas. On the trophy's base is the white text "WINNER March 30, 2000" while on the Texas-shaped glass are multiple white words and a small checkered pattern. In front of Lasoski and Gossage is a short white wall with a red border and a large logo on it. Behind the duo is a large, diagonally tilted object that's red-brown in color and has the number "83" towards its left end in in large blue numbers. Above this number is a yellow tag that says "Brodix cylinder heads" in black text. Behind the tilted object is a red wall with large multi-colored logos on it.

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1 photograph : col. ; 5 x 7 in.

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  • Preferred Citation: Courtesy of Denton Chamber of Commerce Collection (AR0845), University of North Texas Special Collections

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Denton Chamber of Commerce Collection

These materials document Chamber activities from 1938-1998, with emphasis on an advertising campaign developed in 1967 to attract new businesses to the city.

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  • March 31, 2000

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[Eddie Gossage (left) and Danny "The Dude" Lasoski (right) celebrating], photograph, March 31, 2000; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2025043/: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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