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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.28.2010 - 12:48 pm
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1 Mile Dirt Oval, on NASCAR schedule for 6 years between 1956 and 1961.
The track was closed when the state fairgrounds was moved. The site was
then used to build a shopping center in 1970.


  2.   OWEN OLI posted:
  08.13.2014 - 12:46 am
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MY UNCLE OWEN LOGGINS RACED ON THIS TRACK


  3.   Andy U posted:
  12.11.2018 - 12:20 pm
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I must be missing something.

The 1967 map shows the Cal State Fairgrounds in the same place that
Google Maps is showing it today (2018).

There was a track in 67 and it is still there now. Looks like a horse
track which would make it about a mile.

Poster #1. Good info that the track was at the fairgrounds. Where were
the fairgrounds?

I found another "Fairgrounds" on the 1967 map. I wrote this track up in
one of these comment boxes which I was looking for another track in
Sacramento.


(this)
This was a racetrack at the fairgrounds that might be the place. It
shows on the Sacramento 1967 map. Looks like now the 1/2 turns are under
the Cal Dept of Justice and the parking lots. This track sure looks like
more than .5 miles. The infield was a pond. Looks like a horse track
which makes it probably a mile.


  4.   A posted:
  12.21.2020 - 6:52 am
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This earlier version of the California Fairgrounds was used from the
late 30's until sometime in the 1960's. Today it is the location of the
UC-Davis Medical Center. A track is very visible on old shots at
Historic Aerials. The track was between what is now 49th and 50th
Streets, and stretched nearly from Broadway to what is now X Street.

The site appears to have been absolutely transformed since the late 60's
with virtually no clues on the ground or above as to it's former
configurations.


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