I took my camera in to take some photos of some places near where I work before they disappear to development here in Goleta, CA.
The first is the corner at the end of the front straight of what was the Santa Barbara Airport race course which held races there from 1949 to 1968.
The corner as it looks today..(Ken H photo )
The same corner in 1949 as English driver, Philip Payne drives through in his class winning Baldwin Special.
A 1949 poster of the first SB race meet.
The show must go on ! The drivers hoped that the pilots picked the correct runway on race day !
(Moss Motors is just off to left about a mile behind the tail of the plane.)
Ken H.
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