Abandoned Tulsa Speedway
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- The Tulsa Speedway was originally located at the Tulsa Fairgrounds starting in the 1930's. It moved north of Tulsa of highway 75 in 1985 when the Fair Meadows horse track was constructed. The Speedway operated succcessfully at the new location through the 1990s, and then went through decline and a series of owners until it closed after the 2005 season.
Tulsa Speedway was such an important part of my youth. Hahn, Howerton, Taft, Cagle, Jimmerson.... So many wondrous race cars with my hero's at the wheel powersliding thru each turn. I believe this was the replacement speedway after the neighborhoods complained of noise at the speedway long after I was gone. What magical memories.
Cagle? What was his first name?
I was a Cagle before marriage. lol
We went there with a friend when I was in high school and he would race his souped up Nova.
We had the best times there. Sad to see it go...
Thank you so much for making this video. I used attend races there every chance i could and i also raced a 360 Modified sprint there myself back in the 1988 season. I loved the track. this brought back so many great memories. what has happened to this facility is a crime!
This is sad. When the track opened in 85, racing was actually already having problems. It started in 1980 when we had the hottest summer in 40 years. In 81, people had other options for their Saturday nights. The Drillers had built a new ballpark and it was being promoted the way it needed to be. We had lost several drivers do to crashes on the big track so they built a smaller three eighths inside. Unfortunately when you have a grandstand that sits far from the track and you build something inside, it puts the cars too far away to get the real sensation of speed. The small track opened in 82. In 82 and 83, Tulsa split from the NCRA and kept the small engines and added the little top wing. The NCRA tracks went to a 360 cubic inch rule with fuel injection as opposed to the carbureted smaller engine. I don't remember the exact size but it was based on rules that dated all the way back to the 283 chevy engine and the 327. It was basically either a 283 with 327 crank or the opposite. That hurt car count and in 84 when they went to the 360 rules, damage was already done. There was a lady that lived near the fairgrounds that was continually griping about the noise. When the track north of town was built, some fans never came back. It seemed like there was always something. The thing that finally killed the track was the ASCS. There were a lot of guys that wanted to travel and it ended up taking some of the better cars out. Well, this has hurt racing everywhere but it is sad that in a city as big as Tulsa we don't have a weekly show.
I went to the races almost every Saturday nite. I'm sorry to see it like it is now. Is the old Indian cemetery at the South end of the parking lot still there?
@@tombrown8829 No. It was dropped on the head of the Lady complainer. On a quiet night......you can, still, hear her complaining, to this day. What really sucks, is, the Lady is Pregnant and you know that damn kid is going to complain....."You people should have dropped a bigger, yet, quieter, Indian Cemetery, on my Mother's Noodle!!! She complains about everythinnnnggggg!!!!" It never ends.
i wish someone could repair the tracks like these so those damn street racers would finally have a place to race without killing innocent people
Sad to see a lot of tracks going away lately. One thing they can't do is take our memories away. Thumbs up on your video by the way.
Thanks for taking such a good film of a day gone by for the racing community of Tulsa. Gone are the days when people flood to the track to watch stock cars, but one can only hope those days will reemerge. :D
TulsaGirlForever:
I was born in Claremore and grew up in Broken Arrow.
Now I reside in OKC. It is awesome living here now that the downtown area is fixed up so cool. We go to Thunder games all the time and it is so much fun. Bricktown is the place to be on Friday and Saturday night.
I was wondering where the "place to be" is in Tulsa these days. Where do the kids go to hang out?
When I was a kid, the Rhema Bible College kept us from having anything in BA. They ruled the area with religious fists. They even took our skating rink! We had to fight like hell to get a movie theater. Is it still like that?
The very last photo on the bottom right was my parents with a family friend . Seeing that the track looks like it never existed breaks my heart. I spent sooo many weekends there as a kid.
As I grow older seems to me more depressed on what is happening in the world.Flemington Speedway my father would drop me off lay blanket down on top bleacher sec 7-8 every Saturday now a walmart and Lowes is in place of the track.A real bummer Elizabeth I feel where you are coming from.
@@rickhammond2473 very much so
They tore out the dirt track at the Fair grounds in Oklahoma city. My wife and I used to go there every Friday night to enjoy the rumble of those cars as they passed by. Have been very sad about it since it closed.
+TryNsurviveN
I have many memories of that place too.
That was sad to watch, I remember going there and watching my brother in law and cousin race. I miss watching Jerry Stone, Andy Hillenburg, Tony Armstrong, Ray Crawford, and the list goes on and on. A lot of great drivers.
Jessica Hicks I can't believe how it turned into such bad shape. It's been abandoned for only ten years and it looks it's been abandoned twice as long. Was it in bad shape before it was abandoned?
I remember it as being a premiere track. It was like NASCAR on dirt.
I recall racing at the Speedway when it was located at the Fairgrounds, as I grew up less than 2 miles away. The thunder outside was not always from clouds. "Be there! At the Tulsa International Raceway!" Great memories; tractor pulls, sprints, drag racing. Got it in my blood from there.
Sad, but it happens. Thanks for sharing!
It's like seeing an old friend for the last time in your life......all of the fun things in life are almost gone, a dam shame, makes me want to cry.
Breaks my heart to see this. It is like visiting an old friends grave...
my first job ever was at the Tulsa speedway
It's on the east side of 66th street north off highway 75.
I visited several locations like this. At one side it's sad because of the lost track, especially for race fans like me. But on the other side it has something cool such an abandoned place, and it delivers spectacular images.
In Spokane, the COUNTY took over the track. It has not been an entirely smooth ride, but I do have to give kudos to them for hanging in there. That may be an option in other areas, use them for a "model."
I would buy this track in a heartbeat and return it to its glory.
If I was rich I would want to buy this track.
people the track are having a hard time everywere. if you dont want to see this happen the help promote small town racing get people exited about it. im a dirt track street stock driver from mandan north dakota even our track is having a hard time because no one get people exited about it. racing has been in my blood since i was just a kid and i would hate my life if it ever went away. so dont let it the good old days aint dead their just waiting for a rebound.
Eric Harpole Racing I live in ok and grew up at the fair grounds watching the races. It's now gone because people complained about the noise so the made a building in its place. The only thing we get excited for here is gay ass collage football and some dumb basketball team! I wish i could take my boy to watch what i got too as a kid.
Jeff Bryner man, ta hell with those people... They dont know what REAL "music" is... The sound sound of those cars blowing out my eardrums and going home with my esrs ringing to me is music... Nothing beats those sights, sounds, and smells...
Dale Campbell I totally agree.!! If would have been ou or the thunder making all that noise every Friday night it would still be there! Now you have too drive a few hours to go watch the races.
I can hear the Rollin Stones playing over the speaker when I look at pictures of this old track
I drove out there today. I figure it would take a minimum of 500K to put it back in working order. Not much is salvageable. Entire facility overgrown. I had heard there are a lot of tax liens on the property, but have no proof of that. I would like to put together a coalition of investors, much like the PBR did and make another run of it. Tulsa without a dirt track just seems wrong!
I went there so many times when i was a little girl .Thank you for sharing your video's
I was at that track with my friend Herb who lives in Tulsa just 3 years ago
Good job on the video,but sooo....sad!
You have great vids! New here & cant wait to watch more
Gives me chills every time I watch this
It's sad to see Oklahoma's Short Tracks go to waste. I am growing up around a dirt track. And my mom and dad met at Faxon speedway in 1999!!!! This is just sad.🏁🏁🏁🏁
South of the speedway parking lot in a heavily overgrown area there is an old indian burial ground. Not many people know about it. My friend and his brother played there many years ago before the track was there.
one of my most favorite race tracks riverside speedway in Travelers Rest South Carolina was sold due to noise complaints and the track it self is a golf course and the parking is the country club I will always be mad at the owner makes me sick luckily another dirt track opened up about 10 miles from it that my cousin promotes
Great pics! I did a photoshoot last year as I had just moved back to Tulsa from Joplin, MO and was sad to see the current shape it was in. I have a whole album on my facebook page of the pics I took.
I went there a few times as a teenager when I helped Tony Armstrong and the Ofixco team. Sad, Tulsa and Okc are both closed
So much closed down and abandoned in this Nation. Alot since 2009. Lost American Dream.
The Mt. Vernon Raceway in Mt. Vernon, IL is abandoned. It is right beside I-57/64 and has these coordinates: 38°17'40.5"N 88°56'43.7"W
Great job on this video
Lets hope it gets put back in service.
Fascinating,we've had a few tracks in the UK disappear like this.so sad.
You are most welcome. Thank you for viewing.
So sad, I remember watching Shane Stewart out there racing a sprint car at 14 yrs old
welcome to the future of fonda speedway
Amazing to see how fast nature is reclaiming this. I guess that's why we call it Green country.
Roy Wilkerson IT is not reclaiming it it is calling it it's own
+minfordim One of the stupidest comments I've ever read~ "IT is not reclaiming it it is calling it it is own"~
DiggityDave83 Do you really think i care what you think about my comments NO
minfordim
Apparently you do care, because you took time out of your boring life to respond to my comment~ :P
It's making that old Speedway it's bitch!
i live near tulsa and i never ever say that race way or speedway ever and i lived here my whole entire life
The track and stands and buildings are gone now just an field full of trees
Nice job.
What was the exact location compared to Fair Meadows horse track? As an ignorant European I'm in work of collecting both abandoned and other historic and present race tracks of all types as Google Earth places, but this location really stucks me. Expecting the living pictures in the vid to be quite new I cannot find anything that matches. Is all demolished now, like e.g. Riverside?
stenovitz it is off and I 75 north bound off the 86th st. N exit on the right hand side.
I get the feeling that Oklahoma is a dying state
lol.. hateful to break it to you, but my friend Oklahoma is far from a dying state.. oil and natural gas alone in Oklahoma will never allow the state to die.. now dirt track racing slowly dying, yes very likely..
Is this the speedway where they used to have the high school drags?
That Coca-Cola button sign is worth 2 to 3 hundred bucks!
I wonder where this track is at in Tulsa
Way bak when my pappy was an outlaw he done used to race there and hed take me back into pits with em and we done used to sit up on his trailerand watch the races.
So so so sad!
Anybody know where the exact location is?
So sad.
Hey my dad & GPa are both in the pic at the 2:50 mark:)
Rip Tulsa racetrack!
yup sad to see!
Why did they ever close it?
Sad.
Not anymore
with some work it still could be saved
I thought they moved to bristow
i would buy that
so sad
What is the soundtrack please?
the name of the soundtrack is "tulsa speedway goes in the shitter"
You don't know, do you? ;)
Johnny was right. heres the song list for the whole CD
Track 1. "I miss casa bonita"
Track 2. "tulsa speedway goes in the shitter"
Track 3. "Where oh where did Bells go"
Track 4. "Celebration Station woes"
"Alone in the Dark" by Vadim Kiselev
Thank you :)
What ever to abandoned race track
A family is trying to buy the speedway. But the guy who owns it doesn't want to let it go. They r trying to raise money to bring the track back
It always makes me wonder. Why were these places abandoned?
Not enough profit coming in to pay to run the place.
michael hall minimum wage got raised too high. people werent willing to pay higher ticket prices
why dont they bulldoze it down
Trump will bring it back! He's a tremendous business genius! Making America great again!
When it said best show on dirt I thought nope eldora XD
It's a wonder a tornado hasn't flattened this place. It should!
Dear God,
Please take this Speedway out and can you please put in a Beautiful Grove of Fruit Tree's and a Huge Vegetable garden ❤
With Children Schools near by that have Wonderful Solerised Schools that have Vegetable gardens ❤
Please always have All the School's teach your Ways God❤
Thank you God ❤❤❤
Amen❤❤❤
We are So Very Grateful God❤❤❤
Please NO Negative Comments after this Prayer! 😊
Heather Wells Go pray for a meteor to hit a large population of snowflakes like yourself. Were you wasted when you posted?
I don't like watching slideshows with annoying zoomed in and out pictures.
Then do not watch problem solved.
Because dirt track racing is kind of boring.
Bitch no it's not.
so sad