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Description
Bowling Green became the city of speed immediately after World War II as America began its love affair with the automobile. Stock car racing took the city by storm in its inaugural season of 1951, drawing crowds of up to 7,000 in a city of only 18,000. Soon thereafter, the city attracted the Chevrolet Corvette assembly plant followed by the National Corvette Museum. Images of Sports: Bowling Green Stock Car Racing documents the history of stock car racing in Bowling Green and the emergence of the raceway at Beech Bend Park.
ISBN
9780738585833
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
City
Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
Disciplines
Cultural History
Recommended Citation
Jonathan Jeffrey and Larry Upton, Bowling Green Stock Racing: Images of Sports. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2010.
Comments
Jonathan Jeffrey, is the Department Head for the Department of Library Special Collections and the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Coordinator. He is responsible for managing the department and for acquiring, accessioning, cataloging, and providing reference services for unique manuscript items as well as folklore collections
Reprinted from Bowling Green Stock Car Racing by Jonathan Jeffrey (Arcadia Publishing, 2010).