Ah, The Good Old Days In NJ… (2 Viewers)

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[Jim]

It wasn't that long ago that I was covering races at E'Town and Atco. Both were a 45-60 minute drive from my house. Both are gone now.

 

[swervin]

It wasn't that long ago that I was covering races at E'Town and Atco. Both were a 45-60 minute drive from my house. Both are gone now.

20 minutes from me for Etown.

 

[Jim]

20 minutes from me for Etown.

Closer. When I was covering races for DRC, my location was great. 45-60 minutes to Atco and E-town. 60-90 minutes to Maple Grove. 90 minutes - 2 hours to Cecil County. Four of the seven tracks I covered were within two hours. I still live there, but two of the tracks are gone, and I don't cover the races anymore.

 

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[aakar]

Huh, back in '77 we Drag Racing fans were more about Zeppelin and Sabbath

 

[yoda]

I remember that Dead show at Englishtown; definitely ahead of its time (re: modern music festivals)

 

[Paul]

I drove past Atco today heading to my dad's house, pretty sad seeing the place look gutted.

 

[justafan]

Grew up 30 minutes from E-Town. Got hooked on Wednesday Night Match Races as Junior in High School. And yes, I was at the Grateful Dead show. Oh, the memories. My avatar is the Cassidy Bros. Grand Am BB/FC. I sure miss those days.

 

[My Name]

I can be at Atco in 3 minutes. Len Capone gutted it and sold out! He was always a poor businessman, just got lucky somehow getting paid.
FLC

Englishtown had many issues. I can't blame the Napp family.
I enjoyed my time racing at both tracks.
I like the old videos that have been posted at Etown. Most before my time. Great history there.

 

[stitcherbob]

Huh, back in '77 we Drag Racing fans were more about Zeppelin and Sabbath

I remember that Dead show at Englishtown; definitely ahead of its time (re: modern music festivals)

"JUNE 15, 2024 Country singer George Strait just smashed another record in his chart-topping musical career.

On Saturday, the Texas native played the largest ticketed concert in U.S. history before a crowd of 110,905 fans, according to Billboard.

The performance at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field in College Station beat out the previous record held by the Grateful Dead, which jammed before 107,019 attendees during a 1977 show at Raceway Park in Englishtown, N.J.

Though Strait nabbed the record for the largest ticketed musical performance, there have been bigger crowds at some music festivals and free concerts held in the U.S., such as the 1986 performance by the New York Philharmonic in Central Park that drew an estimated 800,000 people."

 

[Jim]

Huh, back in '77 we Drag Racing fans were more about Zeppelin and Sabbath

Is that why the crowd to see the Dead at E'town was so small?

 

[Jim]

I drove past Atco today heading to my dad's house, pretty sad seeing the place look gutted.

After Joe Sway sold Atco, he told me the secret for a racer to be successful at owning and running a track is to forget they were ever a racer.