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The sprint car clips at the beginning were from Port Royal.

The clip at the end is Williams Grove taken from the backstretch bridge

Sorry your experience wasn’t what you expected, doing 10 of these a year on top of all my other responsibilities limits me. This is not my job, this is a passion project. I don’t use AI, only a few times at work. AI can be a great tool to uncover more information so maybe I should have seen what details ChatGPT could’ve added. There’s no reason to use AI to create something if the goal is to have fun making it. If you watch other videos in this series I regularly admit to not finding more information in my research, my main focus is awareness and I often get comments from people who recount more information than what I provide. That, to me, is really cool. If you have more information on the track, add it in and I alongside other viewers can learn more. Hell, take your information and remake this video with it if there’s so much to be said. Your comment is cynical for no reason. I do this because it’s interesting, you could take the time to share and educate others instead of making allegations against me like that. Or don’t waste your time watching the video if you don’t like it. I don’t appreciate it, but I will forgive you.

No, that was the dirt track above old Kennedy Elementary school, the school is now a senior care facility or something like that, the Guseman family owned that race track and had bought the land for it off of my family, after racing was stopped there due to the death of the owners son it was turned into a softball field in the 70's, I used to attend games there as a kid, from what I understand that race track had been a small dirt track midget cars were raced on, it wasn't very big. My grandfather sold the Guseman brother who owned the track, and whose son was killed, the land for it not long after WW2, it was a relatively small plot of land immediately adjacent to the land Kennedy Elementary school was built on which my grandfather had sold to the school district for the school, they were both cut out of the land comprising my family's farm, Craig Farm located on Craig Lane, part of the deal was that my grandfather and his family had free access to the races, my father and uncle used to attend the races there all the time as high school kids. The Guseman's also owned Mid Town Motel that was on Rt 40 about half way between Uniontown and Brownsville, Junior Guseman (I might be spelling their last name incorrectly as I never saw it written and only ever heard it spoken) who was the son of the brother who owned Mid Town Motel and worked there for pretty much all his life was a friend of mine back in the day (it was his uncles kid, what would have been Juniors cousin had he lived long enough, that was killed), we'd occasionally do some motorcycle riding and bar hopping together, he was a real blast to be around, funny as the day was long, I lived in Ohio for 11 years having moved back in 2019 and as I recall heard Junior passed away while I was living in Ohio. A few corrections about this video, Carl Laemmie, the founder of Universal Pictures and part owner of the board track, was one of the investors who had the track built, the story about the actress getting him to invest in the track is probably the other way around, he'd been involved with the Summit Hill Climb race, he and George Titlow, builder of the Titlow Hotel (now known by many as the Highland House Bar) became acquainted when Laemmie had come to stay at the Titlow Hotel which was a renowned luxury Hotel at the time (in that era because of the coal barons Uniontown had more registered millionaires per capita than any other community in America including NYC) they were both racing enthusiasts and started the Summit Mountain race which ran for 2 or 3 years before the county fathers shut it down citing safety reasons, so they had the board track built just a half mile or so from the base of the mountain in Hopwood, Laemmie filming the races and showing them between films in his theaters made it the most famous race track in America at the time, America's wealthiest people and even royalty from Europe would attend races there, these were people who'd come to stay at the luxurious Titlow Hotel also, Laemmie and Titlow had a good thing going at the time, what caused the closure of the track, the final straw after several bad incidents through the years was a car got that lost control and got down into the pits killing 3 mechanics, after that the county fathers had it shut down by refusing to renew permits or however they used their bureaucratic powers to do it, after that all the famous racers started concentrating on racing at Indianapolis. So at first instead of the Pikes Peak race it was almost the Summit Mountain race, and then instead of Indianapolis being the most famous race in America it was almost Uniontown (they probably would have built a paved track in its place when board track racing went out of favor), bit both opportunities were squandered by the short sighted county officials who saw racing as a dangerous novelty in an area infested with wealth from the coal and coke industry. I grew up just up the road from where the track was, about ¾ths of a mile up Rt 40 just before it goes into Uniontown in the neighborhood on the hill above Pappys, in the 70's and early 80's I used to drive golf balls at Gabby's Driving Range which was on the property where the track was, now it's a veterinarian's office or something, I don't know as I hardly pay attention anymore when I drive past, also the track he talks about that was half paved and half dirt that had races there in the years after WW2 inspired the name of a bar, The Speedway, that used to be right across the road and was still open into the 80's.

The area was also home to sports car racing in the 60s and the 90s. The SCCA held races on a temporary circuit at the Connellsville airport from 59-65 and 96-97.

It seems like you’ve cracked the code, there’s a different, updated version of PennPilot with a different name that I use but I always use HistoricAerials and that exact book to locate tracks for this series!!!!!

Might not be this season but it’s on the list!

@joedonohue947 I have family that there in the 50s.

You're right Michael, Altoona did have a board track in the 20's! There were a lot of world famous drivers who raced there as well, and a couple who lost their lives. The board tracks were a huge part of the auto industry back in the day and created a very dangerous sphere for racing to grow in. Unlike anything we would have today with our safety standards. As always, thank you for your kind words and support!