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Wilderness

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Re: How could anybody forget. . .
« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2013, 03:41:10 PM »
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), a few even survived into the late-40s and early 1950s.

Thanks for taking a stab Hal.

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Re: How could anybody forget. . .
« Reply #16 on: August 06, 2013, 04:00:00 PM »
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.

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