GHOSTS
OF RAINBOW RIDGE RACEWAY
GHOSTS OF HILLSIDE RACEWAY
GHOSTS OF OTTER CREEK SPEEDWAY
GHOSTS
OF RAINBOW RIDGE RACEWAY
GHOSTS OF HILLSIDE RACEWAY
GHOSTS OF OTTER CREEK SPEEDWAY
Ladabouche Photo
Cars line up for a heat during the second season of Otter Creek Speedway. The copse of trees in the distance is still discernable at the location now, but the grassy area in the foreground is now a thick sumac woods.
 Courtesy of Cho Lee Dutch Reed takes a victory lap during the very first race program at Otter Creek Speedway in 1961. Note the freshly - graded infield and the grading sticks on the trackside. |
 Ladabouche Photo Approximately, the same area today. [Although, this is probably the shortened turns one and two area, as altered by C.J. Richards in 1963].
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 Photographer Unknown-Possibly Val Bicarcz This shot, from Year Three, shows the shortened turns one and two from 1963. |
 Courtesy of Cho Lee A first-year field thunders out of Turn 4 and onto the frontstretch. |
Ladabouche Photo
Turn 3 and Turn 4 and onto the
frontstretch- 2006. Many of the trees seems to be gone,
as well as an
undetermined farm building seen in the Dutch Reed photo below.
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 Ladabouche Photo The little pond that has always sat in the infield of the track. In the satellite photo, we have previously mistaken this pond for some sort of building. |
 Terraserver Photo The little pond is the black mass in the infield of the track oval outline seen. |
Val Bicarcz Photo
This shot shows a white car going by the
pit entrance road. That road angles
right over to the pond, which is just out of sight on the left.
Ladabouche Photo
To show you how badly the bleachers area
has grown in, this is the same crowd protection
fence [note the rusty orange, leaning slightly, in the middle] as is shown in
the photo above.
Also seen is the wooden fencing that is white in the above photo.
MORE GHOSTS AND MEMORIES
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Ladabouche Photo Remnants of the flagstand, found up in the sumac woods. The blue on the left is Neal Davis, holding back brush for me. |
 Ladabouche Photo Remnants of the flagstand, found up in the sumac woods. This proves the flagger had caution lights attached to his perch. |
 Ladabouche Photo Remnants of a power pole with the Turn 3 caution lights on it.
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 Ladabouche Photo A closeup of the light fixture on the pole. |
 Ladabouche Photo Remains of a 1950's car, which may or may not have a cage on it. A lot of the metal is partially buried. |
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 Ladabouche Photo Remnants of the announcers stand, found up in the sumac woods. It fell out of sight in the 1990's.  Ladabouche Photo The tower ladder sits to the side of the tower remnants. The ladder could well have been adapted from a swimming pool ladder because the steps to the tower were short. |
 Ladabouche Photo The tower, as the facility sits, abandoned. The poles that Herb Senecal put around the track are seen. The tower is still standing at the time of the photo.  Photo Courtesy of Diana Peters The same view, as shot in 1970 at the time of Rainbow Ridge raceway. The tower is still standing at the time of the photo, right just out of the picture Notice a concession stand had been inserted.
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 Ladabouche Photo In the photo above this, the refreshment stand is to the left [or north] of the tower. This old Pepsi cooler was found in that location, among some old boards.
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 Ladabouche Photo A somewhat similar view take n in 1963, of John Narducci's 81 sitting - not having qualified with driver Joe Tiezzi.. |
 Ladabouche Photo The access road down to the track and pits. This road is seen in the tower scene above. The present day sumac woods make the scene look considerably different; but, check out the mountains in the distance. |
CLICK FOR BIGGER PICTURE Two Artifacts on the Site  Ladabouche Photo A track surfacing drag piece that is pulled behind a tractor.
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 Ladabouche Photo This photo of partner Lee Tucker's car shows some of the Hi Monroe barn that everyone had to pass by to get to the track.  Ladabouche Photo This shot of 1961 NASCAR National Sportsman Co-Champion Bill Wimble leaving the facility shows a bit of Hi Monroe's home.
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 Ladabouche Photo A remodeled Monroe house and what is left of the Monroe barn, as they look in 2006 - an unbelievable 45 years after the photos to the left. The traffic to and from the track would go in between house and barn.
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