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“Penny Farthing” by Crystal A Edwards Derby Days looks a little different this year, but there are still ways to celebrate this...

It was another fabulous community event with Redmond Historical Society entry in the annual parade:

With Redmond Historical Society entry in the annual parade, we carried our banner:

Annual downtown parade entry for Redmond Historical Society, during the grand Centenial Celebration in July 2012. It was a great day for...

Redmond Derby Days celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2010! It’s a summer tradition that came to life at the end of the Depression. Derby...

Redmond Derby Days, which celebrated its 66th anniversary in 2008, is a summer tradition that came to life in 1939, at the end of the ...

Like mother like daughter, Debbie Janus was crowned new queen of the Redmond Bike Derby Saturday, a title her mother held in 1949....

A Bicycle History was published in the 1952 Derby Days Program — compliments of Corner Tavern — On the Corner of the Street Where Old ...

"A new event for the 1952 Derby is the Mayor's Race which heads the Racing Schedule. Invitations were sent to all the head men in our ...

This 1947 photo shows five girls on bikes during the Redmond Bicycle Derby.  It includes a handwritten note on the negative: "Bike Derby...

Photo courtesy Roy Buckley collection. This is a detail of the 1940 Start of Derby Bicycle Race. The race is starting on Leary Street....

The following article is reproduced from the Eastside Journal August 24, 1939 "Redmondites were all agog this week, still talking of the...