In the early 1980s, thousands of people would turn out to watch homemade rafts race down the Susquehanna River — all for a good cause. We pulled a report from May of 1981, which you can watch above.

For five years in the 1970s, hundreds of homemade vessels of all sorts took to Rochester's waterways each year as part of the Great Raft Race sponsored by radio station WBBF. Not all of these "rafts" ...

THAT WENT INTO THIS RACE. WHAT BETTER WAY TO SPEND THE 4TH OF JULY THAN RIGHT ON YOUR HOME MADE RAFT AT BRYANT PARK? WHO IS SUNSET RIDGE? DOZENS OF RESIDENTS COMPETED IN THE ANNUAL GREAT AMERICAN RAFT ...

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