Just curious (Phx. hist.)

Pretty sure I linked this site here before but not sure if I saw the memories section.
http://dragstriplist.com/az

 

More drag racing news from KRIZ, Dec.31, 1965.

Wallace, Ladmo & Gerald at Beeline! Anybody know what they were driving or classes?

 

Just scanned the entire Arizona State Fairgrounds Bobby Ball Memorial racing program from 1961.
Will try to get something else up by next weekend too.

 

That's what the guys with the funny accents call El Caminos.

 

Here's a bit of related info from a blog regarding the Bobby Ball race and what happened to the Fairgrounds track. http://triplettracehistory.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-constructionof-phoenix.html

 

And an Arizona Highways article about Jimmy Bryan from Oct. 1958.

 

Both of these well known drivers are buried at Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1569/bobby-ball

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1568/jimmy-bryan

 

Wow, just WOW!

 

Put bits of this on Instagram but here's the whole Desert Dust, Aug. 1953.

 

Absolutely great reading, thanks for posting.

 

Thanks, try to put stuff up when I find it, not doing anybody any good just sitting on a shelf.

 

I need to get one of these, great images.

https://books.google.com/books?id=A...cAhXosVQKHdH9DZ4Q6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Great reading, lots of history Thanks

 

I love reading about Phoenix of old car culture.

 

Thanks, got one more to post.

 

Here's the May 1953 Desert Dust.

 

Any body else got some of these they can scan? Or sell them to me dirt cheap and I'll do it ha ha.

 

Might want to visit the State Fair this year for a figure 8 race or demolition derby night just in case they decide to demo the Grandstands. Built in 1936.



Supposed to be a decision by now but haven't heard anything since March. https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/319344645-video
https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...fairgrounds-faces-uncertain-future/411578002/

 

Stumbled on this. Wonder if there's more footage of the race out there. Bobby Ball Memorial, Fairgrounds 1962 in color. Amazingly 22 spectators injured, no one killed.

 

Looks like pics from the hill climb mentioned in post 768.



Found at Getty Images. https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/...ase=1968 arizona hill climb&sort=best#license

 

Some old buildings have been razed recently, the Blakely station from posts #1 and 41, now a parking lot for the new hipster spots surrounding it. Another being the Moe Allen body shop at Osborn and 16 St. Wondered if they saved the sign and a buddy of mine said he saw it scrapped and hauled away. As Waylon would put it... "Wrong!"

https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...r-sign-phoenix-saved-wrecking-ball/522052002/

Moe Allen / Happy Bear history. http://www.socalcarculture.com/Images/BearHistory-Lite-MoeAllen.pdf

Pretty sure the COE wrecker in the above article was still on the property until 10-15 years ago.