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06-17-2009, 03:45 PM
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Great article, thanks for that
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06-18-2009, 06:17 AM
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We had the same thing in New Jersey. Garden State Park was demolished and "developed" into another shopping mall complex...just what Cherry Hill, NJ needed.
Those of you who have been to the South Jersey area know we have no shortage of shopping malls, many of which are empty and not rented. Not that this fact would stop the building of new ones, for some odd reason. Anyway, I feel for those who mourn Bay Meadows, as we feel that way with GSP gone and ACRC teetering on the edge. While Momouth and Meadowlands are in NJ, they are much further from the Philadelphia/South Jersey area.
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06-18-2009, 09:00 AM
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I attended two proms at Garden State Park while there was night racing.
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06-18-2009, 11:39 PM
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Thanks for posting this Steve, I don't read the Examiner so this commentary didn't get my attention until you put it up.
About a month or two ago they finally removed the largest pile of mangled steel from the demo site (or maybe they hid it behind the wind-screened fence) - it truly was an eyesore for over six months. There still a massive pile of concrete rubble and the area still has the look of a war zone. The only consolation that I take from this whole situation is that the greedy bastards that tore it down so they could make money from the land are making nothing. It still hurts when I drive past this place, the track had such wonderful historic value - society doesn't always benefit when we tear down to past to build the future. My sympathies to any of you that have/had this happen to your local track.
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06-19-2009, 07:33 AM
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It was an advantage, and probably still is, for the racetrack if they could successfully market to the 18-21 year old crowd. And as Steve mentions on the air, for $20 you could have something on every race on the card...cheap night out.
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06-19-2009, 08:07 AM
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Amazing that folks in SF allowed this wonderful legendary instution of racing(lol) and there 5 horse fields and crappy purses, to be demolished by greedy business people.
Sometimes I wonder what the heck people are thinking.Do you all think that the Bay Meadows product was terriffic and was generating tons of money for its owner? Seriously think about it. IF Bay Meadows was such a great business would any of this have happened? It's a shame that this has happened and its speaks volumes about how insane polictics can be but let's not lose sight that the reason Bay Meadows is no more is because there product sucked. Save all the 1960's nostalgia for a coffee table book as long as I can remember Bay Meadows was an unplayable haven of 5 horse fields and Russel Bazes winning 3 to 5 races a day on odds on horses. It was hardly MUST SEE TV?
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06-19-2009, 08:37 AM
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Quote:
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06-19-2009, 08:45 AM
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Roosevelt Raceway highlights why demolishing tracks and building certainly is not always a good thing. Today where it used to stand are a bunch of stores that just duplicate the bunch of stores within a few miles of the area, a mall about a mile away from one of the biggest malls on long island that is headlined by a company (Fortunoff) which has gone out of business and has nothing you really can't get at the Roosevelt Field Mall or locally, and a housing project which sits empty 20 years after the destruction due to the greed of its developers. It has also had the effect of bringing more traffic to an area which the last thing the area needs is more traffic.
The author of the article makes a lot of sense, just because the land is there doesn't mean that one has to put up commercial businesses, housing and a park. Who needs another park anyway? Last edited by pointman : 06-19-2009 at 09:03 AM.
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