Mike if you remember the Speedway basically owned the place and it was the very end of the era where the Speedway had to do zero promotion to sell out IMS. Naturally they figured that 16th st would sell itself out just as easily. The nights they did promote, UAW night etc they packed the joint. The nights they didnt you could have shot a machine gun and not hit anyone. By the end they were drawing 200-300 a night and I knew half of them. In fact a bunch of people I know in racing I met there. Still the racing was exciting as hell, car count was never a problem and it was in the heart of open wheel racing. Such a damn shame.
Here is a race that was on Speedvision in 97.