Old Racing Advertisements

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1954 South Seneca Speedway in New York

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Burden Lake Speedway in New York from 1953

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Two 1953 articles from New York. There is Pine Bowl Speedway and Route 66 both located close to each other

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Two 1952 advertisements for Morris Speedway in New York. The George Gallup in the ad is the same George Gallup of the famous Gallup polls

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Carroll's Grove in New York from 1950. They guarantee $5.00 to every non winner

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A joint 1952 ads for Brookfield and Vernon Speedways in NY

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NICE ones!

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A 1940 ad for jalopy racing at the Lebanon fairground

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Another 1940 Jalopy ad this time the Trojan Speedway in Ohio

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A 1941 photo from the Devil's Bowl in Texas

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Also from 1941 it is racing at Porter's Park outside of Lock Haven

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This is an interesting find. It is a 1940 article from the Hagerstown paper about a wreck at Berkeley Springs. This is a track not listed in Allan Brown's book

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NICE ones!

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I just found this one by mistake. It is not in Allan Brown's great book on former speedways. This is the Lido Island Airport Jalopy Track in Florida from 1939.

I also found an article about a Mystery Ship Jalopy track in Florida and that too is not in the book.

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Time to fire up some old ads. the wife wants me to clean out my paper copies of old ads so I am placing then on disc. This is the Broadway Speedway in Indiana from 1957