Reminds me that my father's estate auction was just a year ago, and one of the
things I had to abandon was the big ol' mahogany console radio and 78 RPM
player that I used to lay in front of, back in the fifties to listen to those
guys. Lots have changed since then, but I'd like to hear those voices again
too, as they would relay around the track.
Another feature of those old days was every year, probably late summer, my
father would get an invite to a small auditorium in town, where he, and later
we, would go to watch a film of that year's race. I think the films were
sponsored by Perfect Circle piston rings. We also used to get a PC newsletter,
probably bi-monthly, and I found a few of those in my frantic claiming search,
pre-auction.
Roger
>>> <Mike.Savin@nokia.com> 05/07/01 04:27PM >>>
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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