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Title: Where and When? #469 - Holtville Drag Strip, Holtville, Ca. 18 Feb, 195
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 19, 2013, 04:13:48 AM
For one point: Identify date and venue represented in this old photo.

Only a correct, complete and specific answer will earn a point; tag-on's to other guesses will not. So, be specific and complete!
 
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 28, 2013, 03:24:22 AM
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Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: D-type on May 30, 2013, 07:59:19 AM
Is the 'where?' Muroc Lake?
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 03, 2013, 02:19:46 PM
No sir

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Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 05, 2013, 04:50:22 AM
The venue usually served another, non-automotive purpose.
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: faksta on July 11, 2013, 02:06:33 AM
Was it an airfield then?
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 11, 2013, 03:22:22 AM
Yes!
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: nicanary on July 12, 2013, 08:38:22 AM
Paradise Mesa, aka Sweetwater Dam Airfield, San Diego ?
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 13, 2013, 04:37:04 AM
Quote from: nicanary on July 12, 2013, 08:38:22 AM
Paradise Mesa, aka Sweetwater Dam Airfield, San Diego ?

No sir
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 21, 2013, 08:23:01 AM
Quote from: nicanary on July 12, 2013, 08:38:22 AM
Paradise Mesa, aka Sweetwater Dam Airfield, San Diego ?

Not too far from here...
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: pnegyesi on July 21, 2013, 10:42:38 AM
Santa Ana airfield, the Orange County airport?
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 23, 2013, 04:08:56 AM
No; you've gone too far
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 27, 2013, 06:37:43 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on July 21, 2013, 08:23:01 AM
Quote from: nicanary on July 12, 2013, 08:38:22 AM
Paradise Mesa, aka Sweetwater Dam Airfield, San Diego ?

Not too far from here...

Quite close, in fact
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: nicanary on July 27, 2013, 06:49:46 AM
I've found a list of old airstrips in the San Diego area, but most of them have unpaved runways. One which has a huge expanse of concrete is Hourglass Field. Maybe this is it?

(I haven't a clue about Californian topography - don't laugh)
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Bill Murray on July 27, 2013, 07:12:47 AM
Montgomery Field, Kearny Mesa Ca.??
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 27, 2013, 07:40:57 AM
Quote from: nicanary on July 27, 2013, 06:49:46 AM
I've found a list of old airstrips in the San Diego area, but most of them have unpaved runways. One which has a huge expanse of concrete is Hourglass Field. Maybe this is it?

(I haven't a clue about Californian topography - don't laugh)

I'm not laughing. This airfield is not in the city of San Diego; it was east of there. West of there an equal distance would make this an underwater airfield  :D
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 27, 2013, 07:41:16 AM
Quote from: Bill Murray on July 27, 2013, 07:12:47 AM
Montgomery Field, Kearny Mesa Ca.??

No sir.
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 27, 2013, 07:45:55 AM
This strange passenger in a strange vehicle may help you find the place.  :)

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Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Bill Murray on July 27, 2013, 07:50:44 AM
Ramona dragstrip, Ramona airport, Ramona, Ca.??
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 27, 2013, 07:58:11 AM
Nope - you went North.
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Bill Murray on July 27, 2013, 08:14:30 AM
Well, looking at your clue, which I believe is a carrot, El Centro was the "Grocery Basket" of Southern California and there was a drag strip at the El Centro airport.  In fact I raced there as well as at every other track mentioned so far, in the 1950's and 1960's but El Centro is a long way from San Diego even if it is in the right direction.
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Bill Murray on July 27, 2013, 08:26:22 AM
BTW, there was also a track at Otay Mesa, I never visited that one and cannot find if it was located on an airfield.
There was, however an airfield called Brown Field I believe.
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: nicanary on July 27, 2013, 08:57:58 AM
Santa Bugs Bunny ?  :lmao:
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 27, 2013, 09:30:21 AM
Not El Cento; not Santa, Brown or Otay - which, I think, has more to do with buckwheat than carrots
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Bill Murray on July 27, 2013, 09:52:02 AM
OK, lets try Hourglass Field at Miramar Naval Air Station and I am running out of strips.
Bill
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: nicanary on July 27, 2013, 10:26:27 AM
Quote from: Bill Murray on July 27, 2013, 09:52:02 AM
OK, lets try Hourglass Field at Miramar Naval Air Station and I am running out of strips.
Bill

Hard luck, Bill. See my post #13.

Is the reference to the carrot anything to do with the word "orange" ?
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Bill Murray on July 27, 2013, 11:14:48 AM
Sorry, Canary.......

Holtville Drag Strip, Holtville, Ca.  18 Feb, 1958.
Also the home of the Carrot Festival from your other photo.

May I say on behalf of nicanary and myself, the geographic clues were quite misleading.  I lived in both San Diego and El Centro and also raced at Holtsville.  Both of those towns are a hell of a long way from San Diego.
Edit:  125 miles and 2 hours on modern Interstates but it used to take me 3 hours in the early 1960's.
Bill
Title: Re: Where and When? #469
Post by: Otto Puzzell on July 27, 2013, 11:30:43 AM
It's closer than Muroc (now Edwards), and Orange County airport, guessed earlier.

I'm sorry you didn't like the clues, even though it seems this puzzle went nowhere without them, and was quickly solved after they were given. :huh:

I'm also sorry you drive like and old lady, and it took you three hours to drive there. I've given you the point anyway.  ;)