[Eddie Gossage (left) and John Mayewski (right) posing with a poster]

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Photograph of Eddie Gossage (left) and John Mayewski (right) posing with a poster for the Casino Magic 500 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Gossage wears a blue-button up shirt, black pants, and a dark jacket. He looks off-camera as he raises his left hand to hold the poster steady on its stand. Mayewski is dressed in a black and gray patterned button-up shirt, a black jacket, and has a lanyard around his neck with multi-colored cards attached to it. He looks into the camera and gives a small smile. The poster in-between Mayewski and Gossage has a white outline … continued below

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1 photograph : col. ; 5 x 7 in.

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Creator: Unknown. June 10, 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 20 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Photograph of Eddie Gossage (left) and John Mayewski (right) posing with a poster for the Casino Magic 500 race held at Texas Motor Speedway. Gossage wears a blue-button up shirt, black pants, and a dark jacket. He looks off-camera as he raises his left hand to hold the poster steady on its stand. Mayewski is dressed in a black and gray patterned button-up shirt, a black jacket, and has a lanyard around his neck with multi-colored cards attached to it. He looks into the camera and gives a small smile. The poster in-between Mayewski and Gossage has a white outline and a block fill with the large text "Casino Magic 500" in white towards its top. Red, yellow, and blue slashes of color go through the numerals in "500" while a yellow checker pattern and a blue racecar icon sit above :Casino Magic". Below the "500" text is a red racecar icon and the Texas Motor Speedway name and logo along with "2000". Below the red racecar is the black text "Texas Motor Speedway June 10, 2000" on a white rectangle, below which is a blue checker pattern and a large yellow racecar icon. Behind Gossage, Mayewski, and their poster is a blue curtain with a pattern of the Texas Motor Speedway name and logo across 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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  • June 10, 2000

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[Eddie Gossage (left) and John Mayewski (right) posing with a poster], photograph, June 10, 2000; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2025045/: accessed May 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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