12.21.02_044_TAS_ALL_0062

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Date:	Visitor's Name:	Comment:
12/21/02	Ed Duncan	R-12 George Sleight, White 2 Jackie McLaughlin, Red 2 Frankie Schneider, Another great photo, Ed Duncan
01/08/03	Bill Hanna	There is no doubt that this is the famous Allentown Fairgrounds at 17th & Chew Street in downtown Allentown PA. The track is still there though no longer in use except for the grandstand which is used for concerts during the "Great Allentown Fair". I think the last races held there may have been around the mid 60's (1964 & 1965). I do remember attending a midget race there as a very young boy in the 60's. Bill Hanna, Easton PA
01/08/03	John Fahey	The Allentown Fairgrounds was a track very similar to Reading. Even the wrought iron railing atop the frontstretch guardrail was the same. Reading however, did have a mesh wheel fence. I don't remember the races being held on a regular basis there. I know that I attended them during the Allentown Fair. I think the track closed for stock car racing in the mid 60's. I seem to remember the track surface being changed to cinders which made it impossible to race cars on
02/03/03	Russ Dodge	1962 was one of Jackie Mclaughlin's strongest seasons driving the Jordan Deuce. In 1963 there were some great laps turned in at Allentown when the table was reversed when Tas ran the Big Donkey 707 This is a neat picture for Tas fans because this Hanchick and Lerch owned 44 was a hump back 37 Ford sedan, the only one numbered 44 that Tas drove. Thanks, Russ Dodge
02/03/03	3-Wide	I am not 100% sure on the photographer of this picture. Any accurate info would be much appreciated.
05/15/03	Jim Murrow	As pointed out earlier, by Russ Dodge, Jackie McLaughlin in Lucky Jordan's Deuce, were hard to beat. In, I believe, '62, or '63, (Probably the later), Jackie won 37 features. Most of these were on dirt, in the deuce, but a number of them were on asphalt, in the 95-A car. For a few weeks, that year, he was almost unbeatable, and several tracks were posting "Bounty" money to anyone who could beat him. He was a fantastic driver.
12/12/03	Bill Skinner	Sonny Strupp became the first modified-sportsman driver to win on this newly rebuilt track in Allentown on Memorial Day, 1962 in a 50 lap feature race that Producer Jerry Fried called the Eastern Quarter-Season Stock Car Championship. Elton Hildreth, Jackie McLaughlin, Whip Mulligan, and Bobby Pickell finished second through fifth in that order. On July 4, 1962 the boys were back in Allentown again to run two 25-lap features as part of the Mid-Season Modified-Sportsman Stock Car Championship. I believe this photo may well have been taken during the first feature when the first three finishers were McLaughlin, Schneider, and Tasnady. The races were such a success that (you guessed it!) Mr. Fried announced that the Three-Quarter Season Modified-Sportsman races would be held at the Allentown Fairgrounds on Labor Day- the National Championships being held at the season's end at Langhorne. Races were held on these holidays in Allentown at least through the1964 season when 2 additional races were held on Saturday and Sunday afternoons 8/8 and 8/9 during the Allentown Fair. And why were the races held in the afternoon you might ask? So the drivers could race again those same evenings at Nazareth (or at Middletown Saturday 8/8/64)! My, how I wish I could see these guys race again! Thanks. Bill Skinner
05/24/06	Ken Johnson	I can remember one of those races that was held late into the day and the crowd was yelling to take it to Nazareth to finish. They were held during the day because there were no lights. There is a movie out there showing 4 of us young kids carrying a cooler of Soda into the stands and it broke and spilled all over. I think Dick Ivins has the Movie. Lindy Vicari of Reading also had several races there

Photo ID #	12.21.02_044_TAS_ALL_0062_1
Car #:	44, R-12, 2 & 2
Driver:	Al Tasnady, George Sleight, Jackie McLaughlin & Frankie Schneider (thanks Ed)
Location:	Allentown, PA
Date:	1962
Photographer:	unknown ( www.acelanephotography.com )
Photo provided by:	Dave Pierce
Provider's comments:	Looks like Al Tasnady leading the field at what I am told was at a track in Allentown, PA. Hopefully, some of the Vault Visitor's can help out with more information.