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Post by giants hat on Sept 22, 2005 19:50:03 GMT -5
The post about Spencer Speedway and the 1979 State Drill is awesome. I am curious to know more about previous State tracks/hosts. If you can remember anything about who actually hosted State Drills, (the rule book only lists track site), and/or exactly where the tracks were located, post here. P.S. West Sayville's website has a great story about the '47 States at Catskill www.wsfd.com/histhomeframe.htm |
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Post by duffey87 on Aug 24, 2006 21:44:28 GMT -5
State parade and Drill 1967 Fuller road albany N.Y. Tourn held at
New lebanon raceway
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Post by Dan Laverty on Aug 25, 2006 7:58:18 GMT -5
What post about the Spencer Speedway?  |
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Post by rick on Aug 25, 2006 8:06:02 GMT -5
The 1981 state parade was held in Rotterdam NY and the tournament was held at the Lebonan Valley Speedway. The host for the FASNY convention that year was The Pine Grove Fire Department. North Lindenhurst won the drill.
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Post by rick on Aug 25, 2006 8:27:13 GMT -5
When the state parade and drill was held in Albany previous to 1981 the drill was held on Rail Road Avenue off of Fuller Road in the Town Of Colonie. That is where they had the arch collapse in 1967. I was told the arch belonged to Hicksville and was brought upstate to be used for the state drill.
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Post by Riverhead on Aug 25, 2006 11:29:16 GMT -5
1960 States in Riverhead(won by N. Bellmore), held on Harrison Ave. if front of where the present HS is.
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Post by 2old2run on Aug 25, 2006 18:07:53 GMT -5
The 1982 state drill was held high on a mountain in Olean, N.Y. on an airport runway. It was the coldest drill I had ever been to. In fact by the time we got to run buckets we were running in the SNOW! Snow flurries in August, that was the only time that I saw that at any drill.
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Post by jamesportroves on Sept 9, 2006 20:09:03 GMT -5
add this hempsted winners of the 2006 state tornamint!!!
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Post by BTritone on Sept 10, 2006 8:24:35 GMT -5
Is that like "peppermint" or "spearmint" ("tournamint'")??
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Post by JIBBACAT on Feb 2, 2007 15:10:34 GMT -5
 79 STATE AT THE SPEEDWAY ST JAMES C LADDER 9.24 "STATE RECORD RUN" |
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Post by giants hat on Dec 13, 2009 12:09:02 GMT -5
The Suffolk County GIS department has developed a new map (unfortunately it appears to only be available on the County's internal network) which contains, among other things, aerial photos of much of the county from 1947, 1962, 1970, 1978, 1984, 2001, 2004, 2006 & 2007. On the 1962 map, I found a grainy image of the old Track on Harrison Av in Riverhead, site of the 1960 NYS State Drill. The arch and some of the lines can be seen. The arch was I/F/O 751 Harrison, and the C-Hose starting line I/F/O #771. The track ran south to north.
If anyone can let me know where the Suffolk Cty Fairgrounds were, I will try and locate that and figure out how to get both images posted to this board.
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Post by trk6eng2 on Dec 13, 2009 12:21:33 GMT -5
I believe they were in Yaphank. What is now Whispering Pines
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Post by tumbler on Dec 13, 2009 13:17:06 GMT -5
When the state parade and drill was held in Albany previous to 1981 the drill was held on Rail Road Avenue off of Fuller Road in the Town Of Colonie. That is where they had the arch collapse in 1967. I was told the arch belonged to Hicksville and was brought upstate to be used for the state drill. Don't know if you're from Albany, but is this where 'The Crossings currently are? |
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Post by giants hat on Aug 7, 2010 14:12:30 GMT -5
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Post by HydroJr on Aug 8, 2010 12:13:30 GMT -5
I am drawing a blank, what year did the pea pickers hit the arch? I recall it being near a race track. There was a modified race going behind where we were racing. Was it 79 at Lebanon?
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