Help! Looking For The Photo "The Smoke Filled Room"

Robert Mitchell
@robert-mitchell
12 years ago
327 posts

I'm looking for a photo of a meeting of Bill France and NASCAR at Daytona in the late '40s, early '50s. The photo was titled/captioned "The Smoke Filled Room" and wasoriginally printed in a magazine or possibly a program or yearbook. The picture was Bill France and other officials and track owners sitting around a big table.

It would look similar to this photo -


updated by @robert-mitchell: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
Robert Mitchell
@robert-mitchell
12 years ago
327 posts

Thanks.I'm actuallylooking for this photo for a friend who says his father is inthe picture. He had the publication it was in when he wasa kid, and remembered it called "The smoke filled room". He's looked at the photo above but doesn't see his father. But that copy is pretty small and low quality. Some of the faces in the back you can't make out. I found a bigger, higher quality copy here on RR posted by BrokenBow that I'll show him -

Randy Myers2
@randy-myers2
12 years ago
219 posts

I can pick out a few faces I know but who can help with the names of the folks in this photo. Mr. & Mrs France and Alvin Hawkins (dark suit to "Big Bill's" right) are easy for me and I should know some of the others but am sorry to say the old memory ain't what it used to be.