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  1.   Cooper posted:
  03.15.2010 - 12:03 pm
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Reading Fairgrounds Speedway was a 1/2 mile dirt oval which was briefly
accompanied by a 1/16 mile dirt dragstrip, located north of Reading,
Pennsylvania. The 1/2 mile dirt oval opened on September 20th, 1924,
operating until May 17th, 1942. It reopened after WWII on May 26th,
1946, operating until June 29th, 1979. A 1/16th mile dirt dragstrip
operated during the 1960s.


  2.   Ryan posted:
  06.04.2012 - 8:45 pm
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Now a Shopping Mall. It's Appropriately named the Fairgrounds Square Mall


  3.   adamal82 posted:
  06.20.2014 - 9:07 am
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As a kid, the boscov's department store in the mall used to have race
cars suspended from the ceiling as a homage to the site's past


  4.   A posted:
  07.08.2020 - 11:46 pm
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And now the Fairgrounds Square Mall has been closed and demolished. What
comes next, I wonder?


  5.   Statscrash posted:
  07.29.2020 - 11:44 pm
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Probably houses knowing this area of PA


  6.   Dennyfan05 posted:
  07.30.2020 - 2:33 pm
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@5 it is actually a farmers Market.


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