It started out as a business opportunity by a group of businessmen from Watseka, Illinois in 1924. It became a great success for several years. My grandfather, Thomas James (TJ) McCullough purchased the farm on which this racetrack/speedway was located in 1930. For the next several years, TJ and Myra McCullough and their family of 6 sons and 6 daughters did everything from preparing the track, advertising the races and running the concessions. I still wish I had asked more questions of my older aunts and uncles about life during those hot summer days.
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The Watseka Republican, May 22, 1941 |
See
this post for my article,
McCullough Speedway - Watseka, Illinois published in the
Iroquois County Genealogical Society quarterly newsletter,
The Stalker. It appears on the ICGS blog,
Searching Genealogy in ... Iroquois County, Illinois.
http://oldcourthouse.blogspot.com/2016/03/mccullough-speedway-watseka-illinois.html
Hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did researching it.