Oh yeah..... I grew up about 80 miles from Indy at WIlliamsport..... There
was always a long extension cord to a radio out in the back yard and a
barbeque going, Dads with their beers around the radio and the grill, kids
playin all over the yard and the Moms all in the kitchen yakking.
The ENTIRE month of May in Indiana was devoted to THE RACE. Nowhere else on
earth do they grasp the bigness of THE RACE like they do in Indiana. Even
Indiana basketball doesn't compare!
Tom Crain
----- Original Message -----
From: <Mike.Savin@nokia.com>
To: <spaceley@uiuc.edu>
Cc: <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: May 07, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: RE: Gee but I'd love to hear that again --- me too!
> I'd be interested in the same, Scott.
>
> You left out one of my favorites: Freddy Agabashian
> (driver of the Cummings Special -- and announcer/commentator).
>
> --- Mike Savin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Scott Paceley [mailto:spaceley@uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 12:28 PM
> To: vintage-race@autox.team.net; team-thicko@autox.team.net
> Subject: Gee but I'd love to hear that again
>
>
> Howdy all,
>
> About this time of year I get all nostalgic for Memorial days spent
> close to a transistor radio listening to Sid Collins, Howdy Bell (at
> the top of the grandstands in turn two) a very young Paul Page and
> more names I can't recall.
>
> I'm sure many remember the REAL Greatest Spectacle in Racing as I do.
>
> I'd love to find recording of these broadcasts, commercials and all.
> (Why I didn't tape them with my JC Penney cassette recorder I don't
> know.)
>
> Does anyone have recordings of their own? Is there a commercial
> source for this?
> I'd most like something from the late fifties to the early seventies.
>
>
>
> Thanks big,
> --
>
> Scott Paceley
> spaceley@uiuc.edu * 217-333-8759 * Champaign, IL
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