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7/23/09, 8:14 AM   #6
Re: The Last Auto Racing Event Ever at the Joliet Memorial Stadium on September 1
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Originally Posted by I Miss Manzy View Post
Hate to hear of yet another track closing. It seems to be an epidemic in this country of late. We lost Manzanita so the property could be used as a storage lot for cranes [the lifting kind, not the bird kind].What is the land in Joliet to be used for,something equally as important? Why is it that racetracks always seem to be the first to go?
The Memorial Stadium hasn't had an auto race there since 1986.

http://www.jolietpark.org/index.php?...d=41&Itemid=41

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet_Memorial_Stadium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO57EXGo2zo
 
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