Chasing the Checkered Flag: The Tunis Speedway | Waterloo, Iowa

Chasing the Checkered Flag: The Tunis Speedway | Waterloo, Iowa
• Chasing the Checkered ... (17:06 min).
Tunis Speedway was an Iowa race car venue in Waterloo Iowa. In its heyday during the 1950s and 1960s, Tunis Speedway brought up to 5,000 people out on a Saturday to watch cars speed past and sometimes flip over. This video, featuring local historian Jim Volgarino and his incredible collection of photographs available here at Fortepan Iowa / Jim Volgarino (fortepan.us/se..., visualizes the story of car racing in Iowa, and some of the cultural practices that emerged during over 40 years of car racing.
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