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Eventually the town grew to 2,000 people and became known for a local magazine, The Death Valley Chuckwalla. The Death Valley Chuckwalla was the magazine which exposed fraudulent companies as stated in the previous paragraph. By 1909 the copper mining had collapsed without ever turning a profit and the residents left town for other areas. Today ...
What's next for the Speedway Burger Chef building 45 years after one of Indiana's most notorious unsolved crimes.
Death Valley got 1.66 inches of rain earlier this week, the National Weather Service said early Wednesday in a 72-hour precipitation report. A temporary lake at Badwater Basin is rare, according ...
Mike Colsten began his racing career in 1969 in the Late Model division, winning class titles at Rolling Wheels Raceway in Elbridge NY, Weedsport Speedway NY, Herb Harvey Speedway PA, and Twin Valley Speedway NY. He moved up into the Modified ranks in 1976, winning his first feature event the following year at Weedsport, and ultimately claiming ...
He was named the 2006 RPM Racing News driver of the year. That year he won The Dream ($100,000), Topless 100 ($45,000), Scorcher 100 ($20,000), Racefest ($20,000), Dixie Shootout ($15,000), and the Cedar Lake Nationals ($50,000). He also had nine wins in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series. [5] Bloomquist's 2008 race car at Cherokee Speedway
A motorcyclist died of suspected heat exposure and another was hospitalized for severe heat illness on Saturday amid record-setting temperatures at Death Valley National Park, officials said.
It opened on March 27, 1999, under the official name Irwindale Speedway. Toyota purchased the naming rights to the facility in 2008, and from that time until 2011 it was also known as the Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. [1] The speedway featured banked, paved 1 ⁄ 2 - and 1 ⁄ 3-mile oval tracks and a 1 ⁄ 8-mile drag strip.
The 48th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Saturday, May 30, 1964. The race was won by A. J. Foyt, but is primarily remembered for a fiery seven-car accident which resulted in the deaths of racers Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald.