I posted the comment and link below a minute ago as a response to Bobby Williamson's search for Lakeside Speeday in Denver, NC history, but I hate for the link to get lost in just that post under the Historic Speedways category:
This is proving difficult to find....
HOWEVER, the search led me to one of the best documents on Southern Auto Racing that I've seen and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND it.
Published in the July 2007 edition of the North Carolina Historical Review, the piece is titled THE AUTO RACING BUSINESS IN THE EMERGING SOUTH by Dr. Randall Hall, Editor of the Journal of Southern History.
The article has outstanding info on southern auto racing in the very early days and continuing through the 50s.
There are some astounding photos, such as Bobby Myers holding a very young Chocolate Myers beside a Confederate flag draped concession stand at Peace Haven Speedway in the 1940s and a photo of the start of a 1948 NASCAR event at Greensboro. There's a 1930s era photo even of Big Bill France in his open wheel car at Lakewood in Atlanta and a mid 1930s photo of the big cars at Raleigh.
Did you know that the legendary Sam Nunis who taught Chris Economaki the art of race promotion began booking races after he was severely injured driving a car at a 1925 Concord, NC race?
You have got to read this piece if you have any interest at all in southern auto racing history. Excellent, excellent reading.
Here is the link to the pdf file, which may take several moments to load:
http://www.fancygapmountain.com/CarnivalofSpeed.pdf
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"Any Day is Good for Stock Car Racing"
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
