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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Sam "POPS" Humphries on Saturday, August 18, 2012 - 02:21 pm:

Found this in my stuff sometime back and just remembered where I put the scan pic. Anyone who was around Chicago in the late 50's might remember this. I surely do. I was stationed at Arlington Hts for several years. Brings back many good memories.

SamO'Hara Raceway


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Harold Schwendeman - Sumner,WA on Saturday, August 18, 2012 - 08:34 pm:

Boy! Do I remember! You bet! Some great stock car racing on a great 1/4 mile track. That's where Freddy Lorenzen got his start. I grew up in Franklin Park, about one mile from O'Hare Stadium. Remember how the announcer would say something like,...."if anybody would be willing to lend their Chevrolet transmission to team______, please report to the announcer's booth"? Some of those guys could "borrow" your transmission for agreed upon "remuneration" and install it in their race car in mere "minutes" and only miss one heat race. Pretty amazing I always thought.

Yeah, it was a sad occasion when they tore out O'Hare Stadium. Obviously, that property near O'Hare International Airport on the Mannheim "strip" where there are dozens of hotels now became much too valuable for use as a mere stock car racing track.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Sam "POPS" Humphries on Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 07:11 am:

Harold, I remember the rivalry between Bill Lutz and Freddy. The old Hudsons. WOW. Still have the unused stickers. Those were great times.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Harold Schwendeman - Sumner,WA on Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 11:48 am:

Sam - Remember the red & white '57 Chev,.....number 7? The car number painted on each side was a sexy woman's leg, complete with high-heel shoe and black mesh stocking and the leg was in the shape of a "7". Been trying to remember the name of the driver of #7 but I guess it's just too long ago. (That mighta' been Bill Lutz,...???) Yeah, between my Dad and I, and, my girlfriend and I (now my wife of 48 years) we spent a lot of great Saturday nights at the stock car races at O'Hare Stadium, those were "great times" for sure! And about a mile south on Mannheim Road was Dave's Drive-In for great burgers & fries and an on-going, all-evening, in & out rolling car show which often included my '28 Model A Ford coupe! (Second only to Skip's on North Avenue) I guess some of my best memories of growing up around Chicago involved stock car racing at O'Hare and the midgets at Soldier Field which included such names as Jim and Dick Rathman!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Harold Schwendeman - Sumner,WA on Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 11:55 am:

(....I should have said "stock cars & midgets at Soldier Field")


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Sam "POPS" Humphries on Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 12:57 pm:

Harold, The sponsor of the no. 7 if a faded memory serve me was Nickey Chevrolet and spelled with the K backwards on the car. Our favorite place to eat was Carl,s Pizza on 14. We lived over the Roto Mercury dealership then.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Harold Schwendeman - Sumner,WA on Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 03:43 pm:

Yeah! Now that you mention it, I even remember the song from radio commercials:

"Nickey Nickey Chevrolet,.....Nickey spelled with a backward K.

Glad you mentioned that Sam. I have had another radio commercial song "stuck" in my head for years; must have heard it thousands of times as a kid growing up in the Chicago area:

"Clark Super one hundred gasoline
Thousands say it's best
The largest selling gasoline
In the middle west
Fill up today
You'll know just what we mean
Clark Super one hundred gasoline"

Yeah,.....that one and of course, Purple Martin Ethyl gasoline, right? (........it actually was purple!)


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