Riverside's Old Race Track

In honor of the person who couldn't wait to mail their taxes in Riverside today, I thought I'd finish a post I started over a year ago. 

A while back when I was researching about the old Riverside drive-in movie theater, I also noticed that there was a race track in Riverside.  The old 1935 USGS topo map shows it was a rather large facility.

 

At some point between then and 1964, the drive-in movie theater was built and the track got smaller.

I scanned the write up from a copy of "The History of Riverside" book that was printed in 2001 as part of the 50 year anniversary of the city which has some more detail.

Being Platte County, I'm sure there were some regular "characters" who frequented the place.

The Scooby-Doo Show - 2x05 - The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race

Cartoon credits to Warner Brothers from the Scooby Doo Show.

(One of my all-time favorite Scooby Doo episodes)

Comments

[Tdub]

Does anyone remember a guy blowing himself up with dynamite while sitting in easy chair, at Riverside racetrack around 1975?

[Tdub]

BTW he lived, a daredevil act in between races.