Photo ID # | f02.13.09_BOA_TRK_LAU_1925S_1 |
Car #: | #Many |
Driver (s) : | Many |
Location: | Laurel, Md |
Date: | 1925 |
Photographer: | Unknown |
Photo provided by: | Larry Jendras Jr. |
Comments: |
Senior Moment by Larry Jendras Jr.: Baltimore – Washington Speedway Located about
150 miles southwest of the Atlantic City board track was the Baltimore –
Washington Speedway board track. It measured 1 1/8 mile with 48 degree
banked turns. According to the first race program, it was built at a cost of
$500,000. using 5,000,000. feet of Southern yellow pine. It was located off
Route 1 in Laurel, Maryland, next to the B&O railroad line. |
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05.07.09 | Mark Makuch | If you go to Google Earth, find the horse track (Laurel, MD). Look directly east of the stables, you will see an oval outline in the overgrowth. Is this the board track? |
05.24.09 | Charles Carr | My name is Charles Carr and my family lived in Laurel since forever. My father and his brothers help build this track. My father would be 101 years old this year. The oval outline you see east of the stables is not the ghost of this track. That land along Whiskey Bottom Road has always been quite marshy and would flood often when I was a kid circa 1952....the wooden track was located on what now appears south east of the track. Along Rte 197. there is a golf course part of Laurel Pines Country Club and I was told some years ago that the track was located in that area. I welcome any other information on this track, which no one in Laurel seems to know about nor about the era of board track racing. |
08.22.12 | Jack Hovey | I've heard elsewhere that the track location was in the general area of the Laurel Pines golf course. Also, the ghost track seen along Whiskey Bottom in Google Earth does not measure out to 1 and 1/8 mile, if you use the distance scale in the lower left. That track measures out to approximately 3/4 mile, so it was most likely a practice track for horses. |
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