Cisco Kid Flies Piedmont to Roanoke's Victory Stadium (Home of NASCAR Racing) in 1954

Dave Fulton
@dave-fulton
11 years ago
9,137 posts

Ok... this is not a racing post... but close.

On Tuesday night's Goat Rodeo radio broadcast, Hugh Ottacash and Ms. Barb were discussing the grand old Piedmont Airlines of Winston-Salem, NC.

While looking in the archives of television station WSLS in Roanoke, Virginia at the University of Virginia Library site, I came across a great clip of Duncan Renaldo - "The Cisco Kid" - arriving in Roanoke via Piedmont Airlines for a Boy Scout camporee at Roanoke's Victory Stadium - also the home of NASCAR racing - in 1954.

For those of us of a certain age, The Cisco Kid and pal Pancho were afternoon entertainment during the infancy of television.

It was a quieter, simpler time. The good guys wore white hats and weren't sponsored by 5-Hour Energy or the Aaron's Lucky Dog.

WSLS news clip of Cisco Kid arriving via Piedmont DC-3 link below followed by anchor script:

http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2220333




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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:10:12PM