Print, Photographic

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Print, Photographic

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2006.33.4

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Clark Gable, the famous movie star, poses for a picture while sitting in a sports car called Esmeralda, No. 63, which was owned by Tacoma's Leo Dobry. In the movie “To Please a Lady” that Gable starred in, Leo Dobry's car was in a scene of the movie. Dobry's race car raced in the 1950 Indianapolis 500 with Jack McGrath at the wheel and finished in 26th place. Many cars in the late 1940s and 1950s ran both in the Indianapolis 500 and the Pikes Peak Hill Climb.

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Auto Racing, Motor Racing, Professional/Semi-Pro

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Gable, Clark

Person or Organization

Dobry, Leo