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12-30-2020, 11:59 AM
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post a Google satellite view of a defunct racetrack you went to
This might be a fun one. I'll start. Here's Longacres. You can still see much of the outline of the track:
https://goo.gl/maps/5pRCcKoeTxCkDMSc9
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12-30-2020, 12:16 PM
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3883 W Century Blvd Inglewood, CA 90303... Hollywood Park --
You can see Sofi Stadium under construction at the time the image was taken.
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12-30-2020, 12:21 PM
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Location: Nebraska
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Aksarben.
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12-30-2020, 03:20 PM
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@TimeformUSfigs
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Location: Moore, OK
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12-30-2020, 03:22 PM
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Harness racing Fan
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Long Island, New York
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If you really want to go on a nostalgia trip, go to www.historicaerials.com and type in the address. You'll get to see satellite images of the track when it was still around.
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12-30-2020, 04:36 PM
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12-30-2020, 04:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by theiman
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Interesting! Philadelphia Mills' sister outlet mall, Ontario Mills, sits across the street from the site of the old Ontario Motor Speedway, which was built to be the "Indianapolis of the West", a 2 1/2 mile 4 turn oval with the same dimensions as IMS, in 1970, only to close ten years later.
So I guess the outlet mall builders have a thing for old racing facilities.
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12-30-2020, 04:53 PM
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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
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12-30-2020, 10:13 PM
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Registered Wacko
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Belmont-ish
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I thought it was nice how the former site of Brandywine Raceway had the infield preserved.
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12-30-2020, 10:42 PM
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Journeyman
Join Date: Sep 2020
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
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My fastest time from Logan to The Rock was 37 minutes.
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12-31-2020, 08:26 AM
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12-31-2020, 10:39 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jay68802
Aksarben.
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I called the last race ever run at AK-SAR-BEN. Of course it was very different in that we didn't know at the time that would be it. That track and city during the racing season was a BLAST! Every place you'd go into for about a 20 mile radius people would be talking about the races. Loads of buses from Des Moines and more so Kansas City rolled in on the weekends. Great racing with legendary horsemen. GATE DANCER won the Cornhusker in 84 I think it was. Then there were the great Nebraska breds like DAZZLING FALLS ( just passed away this week) ORPHAN KIST and of course the immortal WHO DOCTOR WHO! I never called the DOCTOR at AK-SAR BEN put I did call him in a race at the Woodlands in KC, Kan. Another thing I very much remember about Omaha were the awesome steak houses! Anthony's, Gorat's, the Drover. Sooo good.
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12-31-2020, 11:22 AM
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@TimeformUSfigs
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Quote:
Originally Posted by v j stauffer
I called the last race ever run at AK-SAR-BEN. Of course it was very different in that we didn't know at the time that would be it. That track and city during the racing season was a BLAST! Every place you'd go into for about a 20 mile radius people would be talking about the races. Loads of buses from Des Moines and more so Kansas City rolled in on the weekends. Great racing with legendary horsemen. GATE DANCER won the Cornhusker in 84 I think it was. Then there were the great Nebraska breds like DAZZLING FALLS ( just passed away this week) ORPHAN KIST and of course the immortal WHO DOCTOR WHO! I never called the DOCTOR at AK-SAR BEN put I did call him in a race at the Woodlands in KC, Kan. Another thing I very much remember about Omaha were the awesome steak houses! Anthony's, Gorat's, the Drover. Sooo good.
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I used to love the Ak-Sar-Ben to the Big M shipper angle, cashed on it many times. Those horses were always underbet.
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12-31-2020, 12:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Nebraska
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Quote:
Originally Posted by v j stauffer
I called the last race ever run at AK-SAR-BEN. Of course it was very different in that we didn't know at the time that would be it. That track and city during the racing season was a BLAST! Every place you'd go into for about a 20 mile radius people would be talking about the races. Loads of buses from Des Moines and more so Kansas City rolled in on the weekends. Great racing with legendary horsemen. GATE DANCER won the Cornhusker in 84 I think it was. Then there were the great Nebraska breds like DAZZLING FALLS ( just passed away this week) ORPHAN KIST and of course the immortal WHO DOCTOR WHO! I never called the DOCTOR at AK-SAR BEN put I did call him in a race at the Woodlands in KC, Kan. Another thing I very much remember about Omaha were the awesome steak houses! Anthony's, Gorat's, the Drover. Sooo good.
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Was at Aksarben for their final day. Amazingly I did not remember that you called that card. Call me old. The Drover, IMO, was the best, but that is a really tough call. Gate Dancer won the Omaha Gold Cup in 84, the year I graduated high school. I think he won the Cornhusker in 85. Aksarben was also the first track I heard the name Garret Gomez.
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