February 12, 1908: The Day the Great Race Began
Ray Hahn
March 9, 2020
February 12, 1908:
The Day the Great Race Began
Few people today know about the “Great Race of 1908,” except what we remember from an outlandish 1965 movie of the same name starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. Forget about the movie; let me tell you the facts.