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Gerald Leazenby Lotsa PICS!! Cool Playland Stuff: Race Results dating back to 1947, Most of 68-77 are here. Memorabilia Brochure and Centennial Program History Page Lots of info! 1956 NASCAR RACE Did you see it? ODDS and ENDS emails and such.
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Playland Cars Today Where are they now?
If you know the location of ANY of the old Playland cars, coupes, Bronco cars, Super stocks, Get pictures and send them to me! Let's get them out of mothballs (or ditches) and onto the track. e-mail at playland@excite.com Sold my Playland Chevelle. Is it the last survivor?? There are several OPEN race events each year to race 'em .
Click to visit my Backyard Racing Page. If you want a homepage but don't know how to go about it, contact us for help. Webpages link you and your family, statewide, nationwide and worldwide! Contact race66@gotra.com From Kimberly Robey: I was pretty little when my Dad raced at Playland Speedway. My fondest memory of it was when I was a trophy girl. I was about 4 year old. I really wanted my Dad to win that night but he didn't. What stands out the most was when I was all done giving the trophy they gave me a great big bear and a dozen red carnations. I wish I had the picture they took that night. Thank you for your trouble putting this together. My father Glenn Robey-8-Ball really got a kick out of seeing his car posted here. I suppose you know he owns the Alpine Inn now. There seem to be a lot of racers come there on Thursday nights to BS. Good luck to you, Kimberly Note from Dan: The Alpine serves great broasted chicken, and is located on Calhoun Road, north of the 30th st exit off I-680 in Omaha, Ne. Visit Glenn if you get the chance. Tell him Dan Franks sent you. Hopefully, he won't hold that against you!
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 Welcome Playland Speedway Fans! To my tribute to the late, great Playland Speedway. With the help of many good folks, we hope to bring you a glimpse of the storied past of Playland Speedway. There are hours of reading here! Look around, I update these pages often. BAD NEWS: MY NEPHEW, CHRIS BAUER HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER. LIKE MANY AMERICANS, HE HAS NO HEALTH INSURANCE. PROCEEDS FROM T-SHIRT SALES ARE GOING DIRECTLY TO CHRIS, SO PLEASE DROP BY THE MAIN STREET CAFE, 102 So. Main Street in Council Bluffs and buy a shirt from his folks. While you are there please try out the food. Press the f5 refresh key to be sure you have the latest changes!! DRIVER PAGES ARE HERE!! the Playland Reunion was May 7th, 2005 Click here to read about the 2005 reunion!! St See the Reunion Flyer... Click here to see the April 2004 Reunion pics!! Click here to see the Nov 2003 Reunion pics!! the playland t-shirts are for sale now via e-mail. Playland@excite.com these are professional screenprints. You can also get them locally.
You can e-mail me at playland@excite.com if you want to be added to the e-mail list.
Questions? email playland@excite.com or race66@gotra.com Lee Ackerman from the Nebraska Racing hall of Fame recently sent writeups on Bud Burdick, Bob Burdick and Bob Kosiski that appear in the driver pages . My Baby The "DEVIL WOMAN" 46 Ford Coupe
I do a little racing myself, as a member of GOTRA since 1997, I've been racing coupes on dirt tracks within a 150 +/- mile radius of Council Bluffs. My son Jeremy started racing a few years ago as well. VISIT BACKYARD RACING our pages dedicated to our vintage racing effort. SUPPORT BACKYARD RACING.... Click to visit the Backyard Racing Page. Playland Speedway was originally a dog track. The dog track was started by none other than infamous gangland czar Meyer Lansky, who in 1941, spent $50,000 building the Council Bluffs dog track and grandstand. The Dodge Park Kennel Club was it's name........ Click here to visit the History Page for the rest of the story! How the site has come together so far: I started with a single page called "Playland Memories" on my www.gotra.com website. Mainly, it had a few pics of my Dad's car and references to other folks. It soon had pages for Howard Koziol and Dave Hellerich and Lynn Grabill. I never imagined it would grow from that single page to an entire website!! My friend, Bob Matson, was the first driver profiled on this site from personal scrapbooks. I got his scrapbook and created a Bob Matson web page. Creating the page for Bob got me hooked on the Playland drivers' pages concept. I started looking up names I remembered from the "OLD DAYS". I contacted Don Ronk and he was gracious enough to loan me his scrap book. I created a webpage for him under Drivers Pages. Glenn Robey loaned me his scrapbook, lovingly made by his mother. Frank Van Doorn was next to loan me his scrapbook. He has a detailed history of his exploits from 1968 -1977. I also got pics and articles loaned from Ron Hoden. Larry Osborn contributed a great deal of the track photos on this site. Scott Furstenburg sent me a cd with a HUGE collection of pics and articles. Since then, regional midget racing legend Bobby Parker loaned me his scrapbooks. Bob and Carolyn Stender loaned me their race programs dating back to 1947! These drivers, their family and friends can enjoy their pages for years to come. I would like to publish your remembrances as well, so e-mail me at race66@gotra.com or playland@excite.com with your stories of Playland days. E-mail if you want on the Playland e-mail list for updates and get together information. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the moral support I've received from folks like Howard Koziol, Darrell Taylor, Dave Hellerich and Dave Hubbard, Don Ronk and the Vandoorns. Other behind the scenes folks like Kim Elder and Kim Robey who have helped get the "Big Ones", Glenn Robey a "big one" himself who put me on to Bobby Parker, and Bud Pash, Larry Lindstrum and Harley who tried to help.
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