@dargan-watts15 years ago
Sorry I couldn't get both cars in the shot, but we didn't have these fancy cameras then as we do today. A lot of interesting battles took place on both ends of that place almost every night. And then the new promoters made it "NEW" Columbia Speedway in 1971 and the third promoter in five years shut the gates for good in 1975.
@johnny-mallonee15 years ago
aha so you are the gentlemen who took these pictures at columbia--by chance do you still have the rest of the pictures taken that day? i remember more that day taken and sure would like to see them again
@dargan-watts15 years ago
I didn't take them all and they were not all taken at one race. I do have 100 or so pictures and several hundred negatives that were accumulated over many years. The last images I made at Columbia were in 1974, when Don Sharpe was the promoter. Didn't take any pictures at Columbia the final year (1975). Track closed after running only a few races that season. The late Dave Underwood shot thousands of images at Columbia, but don't remember him being around the track after 1969. Vic Tutte also shot many images back in the dirt track era.
@johnny-mallonee15 years ago
just wondering i raced there off and on during the 60's and 70's until it closed and you are always looking for old pictures thanks for answering back you didnt take any of the old speedway off normandy in jacksonville did you
Sorry I couldn't get both cars in the shot, but we didn't have these fancy cameras then as we do today. A lot of interesting battles took place on both ends of that place almost every night. And then the new promoters made it "NEW" Columbia Speedway in 1971 and the third promoter in five years shut the gates for good in 1975.
aha so you are the gentlemen who took these pictures at columbia--by chance do you still have the rest of the pictures taken that day? i remember more that day taken and sure would like to see them again
I didn't take them all and they were not all taken at one race. I do have 100 or so pictures and several hundred negatives that were accumulated over many years. The last images I made at Columbia were in 1974, when Don Sharpe was the promoter. Didn't take any pictures at Columbia the final year (1975). Track closed after running only a few races that season. The late Dave Underwood shot thousands of images at Columbia, but don't remember him being around the track after 1969. Vic Tutte also shot many images back in the dirt track era.
just wondering i raced there off and on during the 60's and 70's until it closed and you are always looking for old pictures thanks for answering back you didnt take any of the old speedway off normandy in jacksonville did you