I don't know if you can find it but Marlboro is still "there". The sagging
grandstand is used for offices for a helicopter operation and most of the
track has become the repository for recyclable vegatable material - leaves
and stuff. Because it was at or below the water table - a wetland, in
effect - nothing was ever built on it after the track closed in 1969. It
wasn't much of a loss, because advances in tires had made it a demolition
derby scene rather than a sports car track. SCCA killed it by inspection,
but the standards applied were not unreasonable and the track deserved to
die.
Grant Reynolds (flagged and crewed there 1961-1968 - we refused to race
there in 1969 due to high rate of car damage in 68)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Palmer" <mgvrmark@hotmail.com>
To: <Jdonick@vnet.ibm.com>; <MGVR@yahoogroups.com>;
<vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:36 PM
Subject: Aerial views
> Have really enjoyed exploring the aerial views on Terraserver the last
> couple of nights. Two interesting experiences tonight ... you can never
go
> home again, or can you?
>
> Bridgehampton ... it's still there (at least in Terraserver world). The
> photo was taken April 8, 1994. It's beautiful, but makes me very sad.
>
> But just one week earlier, on April Fool's Day, the airplane (satellite?)
> was over Milton NC. Yes, it's true, VIR really did exist before Harvey
> resurrected it! I recommend looking at them in this order -- it's
> uplifting, looking at a dormant VIR & realizing five years later it was
open
> once again. Almost makes up for the Bridgehampton downer.
>
> Go to Terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com and do a search on Bridgehampton,
NY.
> Pan a little northwest and there it is (was). Then do a search on Milton,
> NC, pan north, at there's VIR -- the "before" picture. Tomorrow I may
look
> for Marlboro and Thompson.
>
> Regards,
> Mark Palmer
> Aerial voyeur -- pull the shades on your skylights!
>
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