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General Category => General Harness Racing Discussion => Topic started by: Wilderness on August 05, 2013, 02:54:49 PM
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A view like this?
With tall buildings in the background at the top of the stretch.
I've no clue.
The horses name was Highland Alberta and the time frame was 1943-45
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The buildings look like some I saw in The Bronx 40 years ago.(only time I was ever there) I noticed every horse in the pic had a big fat shadow roll on.
Neat picture... thanks Don!
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The buildings look like some I saw in The Bronx 40 years ago.(only time I was ever there) I noticed every horse in the pic had a big fat shadow roll on.
Neat picture... thanks Don!
Just,
"The Bronx" hasn't held any racing since the early 1900s.
Closest thing to it would have been the old Mineola track behind Roosevelt, and Mineola didn't look like this.
This is a Midwest track, or at least my best guess.
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Just,
This is a Midwest track, or at least my best guess.
Then my 1st guess be one of the Chicago area tracks that I'm not familiar with. You and Michigan Dale have referred to some that I never heard of, but I'm a poor historian. I get a kick out of seeing these vintage photos.
(Dale and I have discussed some car racing tracks that I never knew. My family owned a speedway before I was hatched)
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Great old picture......seems older than the oldest of us on ITS. Seems folks did forget.....JS - I'm thinking! It looks very 'cityish' and that's puzzling......yep we sure did talk about some auto racing tracks didn't we!
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Great old picture......seems older than the oldest of us on ITS. Seems folks did forget.....JS - I'm thinking! It looks very 'cityish' and that's puzzling......yep we sure did talk about some auto racing tracks didn't we!
Hard to remember the '30s & '40s when I was born in the '50s. It was fun remembering the heydays of midget racing with the likes of AJ Foyt, Parnelli Jones, Jim Hurtubise, Jim McElroy, The Unsers, Roger Ward, Eddie Sachs, Rick Kinzer, and the legendary white #1 of Mel Kenyon.
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Hard to remember the '30s & '40s when I was born in the '50s. It was fun remembering the heydays of midget racing with the likes of AJ Foyt, Parnelli Jones, Jim Hurtubise, Jim McElroy, The Unsers, Roger Ward, Eddie Sachs, Rick Kinzer, and the legendary white #1 of Mel Kenyon.
I HOPE you don't think I was around in the 30's and 40's! Right you are about those heydays of auto racing, JS! I met AJ once, interviewed Hurtubise and (Bobby) Unser, and Mel Kenyon I had the privilege to announce and interview many times at many tracks over the years.....seems if its got Horsepower, either under the hood or between the shafts, we like it, right JS?
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You guys hijacking my thread to talk about freaking midgets ;)
When I was a young boy (1950s) and the next street away from my parents (the streets still were NOT paved then), there was a guy who raced midgets.
During the week he'd be working on them and occasionally would bring one out on the gravel streets to make sure it was running o.k.
For a while the cops chased him, then the cops got smart and just waited in his driveway for his return ;)
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Great old picture......seems older than the oldest of us on ITS. Seems folks did forget.....
Dale,
There are getting to be fewer and fewer old-times to rely upon for these mysteries.
Joan Cruise, Stan Bergstein and many more are gone.
I sent this Doug Ackerman (even though I haven't heard from Ada Jean in some while), since he raced the early days in Indy.
Hope they reply, as I'm sure he'll know.
Last year I sent them a summary with one of his Dad's horses at Indy track and he recalled almost every horse in every race.
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Apologies for the hijack, but I have the attention span of a gnat. If I hadn't mentioned it immediately it would have been gone into the ether of other shit I forget. rflmao1
AJ Foyt was an ace with a midget, and had a Texas size personality. Mercurial temper that could go from zero to 60 in a heartbeat. 5 minutes later he'd hand you beer, give you a bear hug, and tell you that you had the most beautiful kids on the planet.
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NEAT!! thumbsup
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Hadn't considered Indy or maybe Detroit. Don't know if there were any tracks in the St Louis metro area. Sure looks citified.
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Wilderness (Don) is right, we sort of sidetracked the thread a bit....my apologies! I won't way hijacked, that nonsense goes on elsewhere.....you see though, JS and I and probably others do have this thing about horsepower it's obvious!
Now, back to the good old pic and solving the mystery........
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I think there was an old track near Cleveland that was made into a shopping center maybe 50 yrs ago. I don't recall the name of the track. I also know there were a few old tracks around Boston. I don't have any pics of any of them so I'm only guessing.
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I think there was an old track near Cleveland that was made into a shopping center maybe 50 yrs ago. I don't recall the name of the track.
North Randall Park was located on the grounds of what is Thistle.
I've hordes of pic of North Randall, this not it.
Glenville and Rockport (although Rockport was in the western burbs) were a hundred years ago.
I also know there were a few old tracks around Boston. I don't have any pics of any of them so I'm only guessing.
There were a dozen tracks in the greater Boston area that were part of the Metropolitan Driving Association (there's a huge book online (http://www.archive.org/details/drivingclubsofgr00linn)), a few even survived into the late-40s and early 1950s.
Thanks for taking a stab Hal.
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Hal,
For a long time I've built locations for old and early tracks by state/province.
In addition and around metro areas where there were multiple tracks I created location maps with map software.
This one for Boston was created in 2008
Early Boston Tracks
The track at Allston, Mass, which is 6-7 miles west from downtown (not included in my map) lasted the longest and into the 1950s.