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Happy Birthday, Gene East
Happy Birthday Gene!
For those of you that weren't racing back in the 1960's, Gene East was the "go to" guy for Quincy Welding.
Gene was a welder, machinist and also crew chief at the boat races for Quincy Welding for many years. He literally was the backbone of Quincy Welding during it's highly successful years.
The photo here was given to the QuincyLooperRacing.us web site by Charley Bradley. It is of Gene East as he was getting ready to "deck ride" in 2 man F Runabout for Wayne Walgrave.
To read Gene's racing autobiography, you can click on this link to his legends page on the QuincyLooperRacing.us web site.
http://quincylooperracing.us/subpage74.html
From the entire Christner family, have a great birthday Gene. Happy Birthday, big brother!
thanks,
Paul A Christner
Happy Birthday Gene.................
From the other side of Florida. Hope you have a great one, and also hope by the evenings proceedings, you realize how many people care and look up to you for the role model you were and still are in our lives. Also hope you at least get to eat a little dinner..............Have fun.
Wow...what a great birthday party.
I just got off the phone with Gene to give him the happy birthday greetings and also got to talk with Art Neadeck and Jim Schoch.:cool: What a great bunch of guys.
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Gene's Birthday Pictures...
Got the pix into the computer, but can't figure out how to attach to a post.
024 Art and Nancy Neadeack
026 Darin East (Middle Son)
032 The whole gang
033 Gene & Norma
034 Jim Schoch & Jean
035 Josh East & Marcia (Youngest Son)
054 & 055 Whiskey bottle received today from Lee Sutter.
Note the special label! Quincy Boat Club had a long history of sponsoring races on Quincy Bay, long before Twin Oaks.
Lee took special care to insure the bottle would not be broken in shipping. It arrived UPS next day air this afternoon. I saw the freight charges. We could have bought 2 bottles of Jack Daniels and a six pack of Bud Light for that money.
Thank you so much Lee!
Art is an officer in the Quincy Boat Club. I offerred the bottle to him on behalf of the club. They already have 2. ! full, 1 empty. This bottle goes in my trophy case.
If you look closely; you'll note the word genuine on the label is crinkled to where it says gene. I guess I'm supposed to keep it.
I'd love to know the history of how this bottle made the trip from Quincy to Seattle and back to Quincy.
Thanks again Lee