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We lost both the cool dirt tracks in OKC and Tulsa. We still have Salina but not much else. I grew up going every Saturday night until it moved to a new locale but eventually it died. My buddy won the track championship one year and moved up to 410 sprints at the new location. Now they run horses at the old fairgrounds track,it is so sad to drive by it now.Escanaba Is a small town of 15,000 people on the Lake Michigan shore line. 40 miles away was another small town named Norway. Both towns had 1/4 mile clay ovals. I lived in between them. I never realized how much our boys were involved with the Milwaukee bunch until we started these countdown threads. My mom and dad were race fans. We went to Escanaba almost every week and sometimes Norway. All in all it was a great place to grow up.
Escanaba and Norway both became paved tracks in the early 70’s. Escanaba shut down in the late 70’s and sat idol for along time. 15-20 years ago they tore up the pavement and opened up another dirt track. It’s now going strong. Norway stayed open the whole time. Norway had a stronger tie with the Milwaukee bunch which raced there a lot.We lost both the cool dirt tracks in OKC and Tulsa. We still have Salina but not much else. I grew up going every Saturday night until it moved to a new locale but eventually it died. My buddy won the track championship one year and moved up to 410 sprints at the new location. Now they run horses at the old fairgrounds track,it is so sad to drive by it now.
You can see why. Those guys were crazy.Great racing, but, unfortunately, these cars killed a lot of drivers.