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The Gatornationals is an annual National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) national drag racing event held each March at Gainesville Raceway in Gainesville, Florida. The event was held for the first time in 1970. [1] The event is one of the sport's most revered with a rich tradition of history-making performances.
After leaving their Long Island home in 1947, Franklin and Ennis Merritt purchased a 10-acre (40,000 m 2) tract of land on the Intracoastal Waterway in Pompano Beach, Florida. In 1948 Merritt Boat and Engine Works was born.
Gainesville Raceway is a quarter-mile dragstrip just outside Gainesville, Florida. It opened in 1969 and is most famous for hosting the NHRA 's prestigious Gatornationals event since 1970. [ 2 ] Kenny Bernstein became the first drag racer to break the 300 mile-per-hour barrier at the track on March 20, 1992, during qualifying for that year's ...
The Old Gainesville Depot (also known as the Seaboard Air Line Depot or Baird Warehouse) is a historic site at 203 Southeast Depot Avenue in Gainesville, Florida. It is located along the Gainesville-Hawthorne Trail State Park. The station was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1996.
Prices would climb back to the $4,000 range but production slowed and never recovered to their earlier levels. [1] L. S. Skelton, an Oklahoma physician who had made a fortune in oil, paid off the latest Premier indebtedness and reorganized as the Premier Motor Corporation in 1920. Unfortunately, Skelton died in January of 1921.
During the last 125 years, various Brush companies (Brush Switchgear, Brush Transformers, Brush Traction and Brush Control Gear) have existed on the Falcon Works site, but throughout this period Brush Electrical Machines Ltd manufacturing generators and motors has always been the largest company. Over 5,000 staff were employed on the site ...
Kristin Ludecke, Miss Florida for 1995, and Miss Florida USA for 2000; Laura McKeeman Rutledge, Miss Florida for 2012 and host of SEC Nation; Molly Pesce, Miss Florida 1986, actress; Jaclyn Raulerson, Miss Florida for 2010; Nancy Stafford, Miss Florida for 1976, actress; Mari Wilensky, Miss Florida for 2005, top-ten finalist at Miss America pageant
In 2009, Nordstrom was listed at No. 72 in Fortune magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For 2009. [97] Nordstrom is a Hall of Fame member of Fortune magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For". [98] Nordstrom was No. 36 on the same list in 2008, No. 24 in 2007, No. 46 in 2006 and No. 88 in 2005. [99]