The Evansville Speedrome was a 1/5th mile dirt track. It ran on 2 weekend nights. The cars were old jalopys, and some nights they ran midgets and motorcycles. Some of the drivers were Eddie Daws, Curly Farnsley, Hank Carlisle, Eddie Hickey, Don Nordhorn, Gene Coomes, Ken Coffey, Charlie Simpson, Wes Stafford, Jack Hille, Curt Posey, Francis Dycus, Owen Hill, just to name a few. I was born in 1947 and remember going there as a child and up till the time they closed 1959. June 22, 1956 was my 9th birthday and Eddie Daws won the feature and I got to ride a lap around the track with him. His racer was a 1934 Ford coupe, white in color with a big red 88 on the doors. I sit on his helmet and remember the track being very rough. There were some good racing back in the day and when a car wrecked or stalled the driver got out of it and ran into the end field or jumped over the outside wall because they didn't stop the races. They just raced around you.