Publicity was hard to get (1948/1950) in Eastern NC.

I took Big Bill and Joe Epton to the Sports Department of the Raleigh News and Observer. This was all that appeared the whole week. The biggest Stock Car to be held in that area.

updated by @jim-streeter: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM

Thank you,very well preserved and a great read.

Jim, I don't think it was just in Eastern NC. If you didn't have a daily newspaper it was hard to find results unless you received the NASCAR Newsletter. Acutal articles like this are becoming more rare and add more of an acurate element to the history. Even in the 60's and early 70's if you did not subscribe to Southern Motor Sports Journal or Southern MotoRacing you couldn't find results from away races. As a kid I used to wait for the mail to run, and look for my paper when I came home from school so I could find out who won where.

I'll "ditto" what N.B. said with this added note. The "cup" deal gets coverage because NASCAR has done a good job keeping the upper levels of the sport in the public eye. BUT! It is next to impossible to get any coverage of anything below the top three. The print and electronic media does almost nothing to promote the "grass roots" of the sport unless the local short track has the funding to advertise heavily. NASCAR has devoted so much energy towards the "top" that the "bottom" is on the verge of not being able to continue to support the "top".

Randy, if you noticed , the article on Herb Thomas was tied into baseball. The couldn't even write about Stock Car racing by it self., Randy, Also one of my first Videos will be about your Daddy, Billy.I hope to start making them in about a week.

Randy Myers said:

I'll "ditto" what N.B. said with this added note. The "cup" deal gets coverage because NASCAR has done a good job keeping the upper levels of the sport in the public eye. BUT! It is next to impossible to get any coverage of anything below the top three. The print and electronic media does almost nothing to promote the "grass roots" of the sport unless the local short track has the funding to advertise heavily. NASCAR has devoted so much energy towards the "top" that the "bottom" is on the verge of not being able to continue to support the "top".

Mr Streeter, thank you for sharing this interesting piece of history.


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Jeff Gilder said:

Mr Streeter, thank you for sharing this interesting piece of history.

Jim, Let me know what I can do to help with your project.Randy

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Randy Myers said:

Jim, Let me know what I can do to help with your project.
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