musclegoddess

i havent been there in a few years so i really dont know what has been built around there....i cant imagine anything was really built around it due to the fact that the dairy farmers around there were hell-bent on NEVER leaving........all i remember, as far as where it is, and i could show u if i drove u there, was going about 3 miles down the main road that Tampa downs is on and u take a RIGHT, at your 1st RIGHT u can actually take ,and then its right there 1/4 mile after that right on the RIGHT....i know that sounds confusing but i remember how to get there just dont remember the names of the streets since i was a lil kid at the time......last time i went there was like 12 years ago and i saw a tower still there with grass overgrown really high all around the track.....the actual straight part of the track was still there....looked like a ghost town,,,,kinda eeeeeerie

chi town brat

Wow this was dug up from 2005 but since we have a person musclegoddess aka Sharee' (welcome to the site) who is trying to answer some questions I say go for it and thank you for taking the time to do so.

chi town brat
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_Charles_

And here it is... It's now a county park, with sub-divisions popping up right next to it...

_Charles_

Oh...I do have a question

What are the chances of getting any and all pictures and documentation about the facility if any exist? I'd love to scan it and add it all to the internet.

Charles

Boostin'Xr4

This thread just got even more awesome.

musclegoddess

i would have to ask my mom to send pics....shes about the only one i know that still has some pics from back in the day........god, i feel old!!!!!!!! im really surprised that the diary farmers who lived everywhere around the track, actually let all their farmland go!!!!!!!!!! they were sooooo against letting their farms go for the longest time....one of the reasons the track was never opened again, once it was closed down , was the fact that i remember hearing the farmers complain to my dad, about all the noise being bad for their cows....the cows were so distraught every Friday and Saturday that they were not producing milk......so i know they were glad when it did close down, and they made sure that it never opened again as a dragstrip....and thanks for the warm welcome.....if u guys remember me and wanna see what i look like now,or even if u never knew me and just wanna know why my screen name is MUSCLEGODDESS , then go take a look at my website....im an INTERNATIONAL ICON on the internet www.shareesmuscles.com

musclegoddess

so charles, u dont believe that TWIN CITY ever existed??????

oletruckdude

My stepdad Bob Scadron owned Twin City Dragstrip for many years. He passed away a few years ago. I used to set up the equipment there every wed/fri/sat nights for him. My first legal drag race was there in 1975. I still have the E.T. tickets from that race. I raced there for a couple of years. When we closed for Christmas in 1977 the county passed a noise ordinance. We had no idea. When we showed up in January to reopen we were met by the Hillsboro county Sheriff, who proceeded to allow us to retrieve our equipment then he padlocked the gate. That was the end of Twin city Dragway. Man those were good old days.
FYI, the farmers in the area didn't like the noise and they were behind getting the noise ordinance passed.

rwanges

This an awesome thread, my Dad used to race @ Twin City I can remember loading the car up Friday night we used to race @ Sunshine on Friday, Twin City on Saturday and Sunday at Tampa Dragway. We started out with a 63 Ranchero with a 289 then squeezed a Boss 302 in it. We moved up to a 69 Mustang with the Boss in it both cars were named John's Special. I have some pictures somewhere I will post them when I find them and get them scanned...Good Times.

P057

yes, please keep dragging this thread up from the grave.