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The club worked with TxDOT to try and find a replacement location, looking at the Brooks Road overpass or even the Willow Street exit downtown, but both either came with too much liability or just weren't feasible. "Fundraising, but also just getting the permits, the barricades, permission to close down the bridge and the streets, getting porta-potties and setting up the course - we had ramps and canopies, we had to have volunteers for the timers and the judges as well as concessions and security, it was a huge endeavor," she said.Īnd though it took a lot of work to put on, the real nail in the coffin is the loss of the location. While the event was a lot of fun to put it on, it also required a lot of work, Garrod said. "We would ship the cars (and) give a stipend to the families of the winners to help with travel expenses," she said. RELATED: Were you 'Seen' at the Soap Box Derby? One of our race winners, who had cerebral palsy, used (the money) to outfit a truck so he could drive it."įirst place finishers got to travel to Akron, Ohio for national races in July, where the All-American Soap Box Derby is held each year, Garrod said. The Super Kids got the same (amounts), but they could use it as needed because most of them were special needs. "The Stock and Superstock (winners) could use that for higher education.they got $500 for third place, $1,000 for second place and $1,500 for first place. "The first three finishers in each division were awarded scholarships," Garrod said.

The Soap Box Derby was comprised of three divisions: Stock, Superstock and Super Kid competitors. (It made you) work with your hands and create something and then race it." "(The cars) come in a kit and my grandson and I put them together - we actually had two, we lost one in (Tropical Storm Harvey) so I ordered another kit - and he had to help me assemble it. "Part of (the activity) was getting out of your comfort zone," Spindletop Rotary Past President Shannon Garrod told The Enterprise Thursday. RELATED: Spindletop Rotary Soap Box Derby encourages fun, friendship to noon Saturday at 242 N 18th St., under the Maury Meyers Bridge in Beaumont. The club is hosting a garage sale for the items from 9 a.m. So, Spindletop Rotary is selling the equipment, which includes soapbox cars, weights, ramps and scales, among other gear. That, in conjunction with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic the following year and a change in the organization's makeup, made it almost impossible to conduct the race. 69, the organization suddenly found itself without a venue to host its race. On January 10, 1901, after numerous attempts at digging into the salt dome, Texas’s oil industry changed forever.But when the Texas Department of Transportation in 2019 announced plans to remove the Maury Meyers Bridge to make way for the widening of Interstate 10 and U.S.

For nearly three months, Lucas dug with the assistance of an experienced drilling team from Corsicana. Lucas was able to drill to a depth of 575 feet but was unsuccessful at getting through the salt dome.Ī year later, Lucas used a new heavier and more efficient rotary type to dig. Lucas, a leading salt dome formations expert, was in charge of the drilling operation. Several oil and manufacture companies attempted to capture oil in Spindletop but were unsuccessful. Just south of Beaumont in eastern Jefferson County, the Spindletop oilfield discovered a salt dome formation. In 1900, Texas oil production was 863,000 barrels, while the national total was 63 million. Texas was only producing a mere fraction of the country’s total. Related: Howard Hughes Sr., the Houstonian that changed the oil industry Southeast Texas had another resource - oil - but the amount of underground remained a mystery.Īccording to History, by the end of the 19th century, several discoveries of oil had been made in the southeastern part of the state, including small fields near Nacogdoches and at Corsicana.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Texas’s economy relied on agriculture, cattle ranching and the lumber industry.