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Originally Posted by DonMoore10
I also visited on virtual Earth the Santa Clara Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA where they used to have a mile track and a 1/3 or 1/2 mile inside the mile. They also had a huge concrete grandstand. For some reason the fair board decided to take all of this out. The interesting thing is that all of the area that use to be track is totally empty... nothing there but grass and dirt. It doesn't even look like they use the land at all. I have read reports on the internet that the people in that area are very disappointed that they removed the track(s) and that the fair is just a small part now of what it used to be. You may also want to visit the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia where they took out the mile track also. They still have the 1/2 there. You can still see traces of the mile if you look carefully.
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The speedway used to be the only thing that made money at the fairgrounds. Of course the city power brokers slathered all over themselves to set up that silly CART/OWRS obstacle course.