SLAC "Accelepede" a first prize winner

The SLAC "Accelepede " won first prize for costume contest in the 72nd Annual Bay to Breakers in San Francisco on Sunday, May 15, 1983. Thirty-one SLACers and friends costumed in red boxes connected by white ducts ran the race, attended by two volunteer "repair units." The team, represented by John Winston, Rob Witthuas, Bob Gex, and Ken Witthaus, donated their prize, an Atari 5200 SuperSystem video game console, to Children's Hospital at Stanford.

[See also SLAC Today, 5/20/2013, "History Spotlight: The 1983 Bay to Breakers SLAC 'Accelepede' (SLAC internal site--login required)"]