wildthing1h (Offline)
#2
5/23/10 9:13 PM
I didn't either until i was by there on fast friday. What a shame.
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Hurryinhoosier (Offline)
#3
5/23/10 9:19 PM
I thought i read somewhere that those were all Cash For Clunker cars....and if so, i think they should have been crushed by now as there was a time frame for disposal.
Torry (Offline)
#6
5/23/10 9:43 PM
The structure is there ONLY because it in on the Registry of Historic Places and it would cost the city a mountain to tear it down.
Call it a scam or whatever but the powers-that-be wanted it ripped down ( a la Market Square Arena and the Hoosier Dome) as soon as its replacement was built. The historical preservation people put a stop to that.
The period it spent as a racetrack was nothing more than an attempt to further insure it would never be used for baseball and to save the city the $100,000+ they were paying to be responsible for its maintenance.
the1jet17 (Offline)
#7
5/23/10 9:50 PM
I look at this and am saddened. I wanna go there one of these days. Summer is here. I wanna see and feel all the old memories. I have a poster of the track on my bedroom wall. It has a group photo of midgets done by Chris Young. I've wanted to go there since i can remember. I always admired that it was a dirt track that on a baseball stadium. And the place is just trashed now. All the papers and stuff thrown everywhere. It almost seems like whoever left it was pretty mad. I wonder what it would take to bring it back?
the1jet17 (Offline)
#10
5/23/10 11:11 PM
Atleast some of you have gotten to go. There are a lot of old historic tracks that you hear people talking about and that are closed now. I was lucky enough to go to Manzanita, but never got to race there. Places like this are places that i wish i could've gone too once.