I wonder what happened to everybody's old hometown drag strip. The strip
where I first raced in Valkaria, Florida is now the municipal airport. There
is an old strip near where I live now, outside of Tyler, Texas, that has been
divided in half and turned into an industrial park. Recently, the strip at
Hallsville, Texas closed down and is going to become a mobil home park.
What about you guys? Whatever happened to your old hometown strips?
DickJ
In East Texas
--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Elon <saltfever@comcast.net> wrote:
From: Elon <saltfever@comcast.net>
Subject: [Land-speed] modified street cars
To: "land-speed submit" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 9:27 PM
Wes. What used to be mud flats and farm land is all gone. The drag strip
land has been converted to very large auto mall. All other land from there
to the estuary (except the decommissioned land fill) is developed industrial
property. Every spec of land from there to San Jose is now developed (on
both sides of the freeway) with either shopping malls or industrial parks.
Silicon Valley Industry has overflowed to Fremont due to the
"relatively"
lower cost of square footage compared to across the bay. You got out in time
:-)
Sun, 2 Nov 2008 From: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>
(snip . . ) We used to go over the Dunbarton Bridge to the Fremont Drag
Strip from Menlo Park. I had my first glider ride at the airport next to
the strip. I think that area and the farmland around it is all high $$$
housing today.
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