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He mentioned Walt James, i remember Frank James and Mike James. Walt Price Jimmy Inslo Jim Thirkettle Tru Cheek Jim Robinson Oren Prosser Dan Press Roman Calzinski Ray-Ray Hooper Ron Hornaday Kenny Sapper I could probably list another 50 names.

Harold, great informative interview about Ascot Park. Spent many wonderful evening's there watching both midget and sprint car racing. Was extremely fortunate to eventually be able to field a midget racing effort with Stan Fox who won numerous main events there including the last ever race the 1990 Thanksgiving Grand Prix.

The great Kenny Roberts raced Ascot!!

This is a fantastic video 👍

I remember as a teenager living in north San Diego County we could receive tv signal from LA and watched racing at this speedway. I think it was channel 5? And the TV announcer was Dick Lane who was quite the character. He would always say "Woa-Nellie" whenever there was a spin out. LOL.

My grand parents lived in N. Redondo Beach back in the 1960's, and I can remember when the sprint cars were racing at Ascot you could hear the rumble at night. ❤

Visit Perris Auto Speedway America's premier Clay oval

I definitely remember going to Ascot in the 70's for the Figure 8's ,Chain Races and Demolition Derby's

My dad took me to Ascot Park in the 70's. Absolutely loved it. Demolition Derby, Circle 8 and if I'm not mistaken Midgets also ran there. Great memories.

I remember gong to Ascot in the 70's for the TT races. Racing is truly a visceral experience. I think the best racing ever is speedway motorcycles. I remember in Ventura always wanting to get a seat down low in the corner - great view even if you did catch the occasional dirt clod. NOTHING compares with a fully crossed up speedway bike hard on the gas!

Just as sad was the loss of the LACR in the AV. Just quarry pit now. All gone.

In the 80s as a kid my dad worked for a company called Northridge equipment rental. We would load up in one of their many all white Ford trucks that they would rent to anything and everything. One of them was rented by the studios from time to time as uncle Jesse's truck from the dukes of Hazzard. There's actually a few episodes you can see the stencil spray painted black numbers on the side of the hood in the episode. I will have to hunt and try to find those now. Even as a 8-12 year old I always knew when it was "Jesse's " truck we called it because on the dash next to the ashtray was a Hamburgler sticker.. Stumbled across this video and just brought so many fantastic memories of my Youth. Every Saturday we would go down during the race season. One car still to this day stood out and I am 50 now but I believe he was called the zoo keeper. Stock car that had a ton of small stuffed animals ziptied the the door pillar back window. Jim Kramer I want to say but its been so long. Not one single bad memory of that place.. Can't forget the peanut vendor that would throw the peanut bags with incredible accuracy. It was entertainment as well.. You would just hand to hand the money down and then your change would come back the same way. End of many eras right there.

HOOT was a real cowboy, before becoming a movie star ! Visit Perris auto speedway America's premier Clay oval !! 😊

Thanks for the history lesson.fascinating !

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Good one Harold Osmer. Thanks for the history

Why is the same footage labeled ep1,ep2,and ep 3? It's all the same!

I met Harold at Irwindale Speedway. Bought one of his books for my dad, who was a midget car racer in his day. Harold signed the book and was very cool to talk to.

Thank you for this podcast. As someone who grew up in Santa Clarita, I spent much of the first ten years of my life in those stands and though the red and white splinters may be gone, the memories remain. Kind of sad that the Bonelli family who is such a big part of Santa Clarita history also demolished such a vital piece of Santa Clarita history. How different would early 2000's (right about when I would have been able to go there on my own) Santa Clarita have been with a thriving racetrack? I'm almost glad to see the land being turned into a studio at this point to get rid of the swap meet and more importantly, the Bonelli family's reign over the track. As for me, I'll have those memories of trough toilets and tri-tip sandwiches with my parents for the rest of my life. Not to mention the best racing action on Earth.

Coming from Ventura back in the 80's, it was always an adventure on the 126 but it was always worth it going to Saugus speedway. And seeing the pic of Scott Dinger was awesome, he was my favorite....because of his name. Thanks for making this video, it helped me understand why a big part of my childhood was gone.

Went to the Saugus 330's as a kid , still miss Saugus !!!

cool interview. Track is still there.Hope one day somebody will be allowed to run some "specials" if not weekly races again.

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Heard rumors part of the reason it was closed because Benellis want a bigger cut of the Saturday money. With what I just heard that may be part of it.

The Santa Monica one was cool and I liked this one

Nice

Cool!

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I once hear a quote from a drive-in movie operator. "It's a great business to be in while you wait for the land values to go up."

What a great history of Motorsports in SoCal. Harold is a walking encyclopedia. NASCAR should hire him as a commentator.

Harold Osmer is amazing. Thanks

Love the Los Angeles automotive history...