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Old Nov 17, 2008 | 11:51 AM
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Drag Racer magazine has a really good article about "Broadway Bob" and Great Lakes Dragway. January issue.
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Drag Racer magazine has a really good article about "Broadway Bob" and Great Lakes Dragway. January issue.
I just read it a couple of days ago. More history there then I realised.
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Bob runs that store at GLD and lives locally. He's very sharp for someone who kind of a drunk for most of the 80's. He started GLD sometime around 1957 and owned it and some other tracks for a long time. He has an interesting life story. I talked to him for an hour this past summer.
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What stores usually carry that magazine? I love GLD and would like to get it.
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Originally Posted by Pro Stock John
Bob runs that store at GLD and lives locally. He's very sharp for someone who kind of a drunk for most of the 80's. He started GLD sometime around 1957 and owned it and some other tracks for a long time. He has an interesting life story. I talked to him for an hour this past summer.
agreed... Broadway Bob is definetly a unique person.

GLD gonna be open some more if weather is good??? i need a few more hits before the snow buries us.
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agreed... Broadway Bob is definetly a unique person.

GLD gonna be open some more if weather is good??? i need a few more hits before the snow buries us.
Their website shows they will be open Saturdays and Sundays in November...weather permitting. I think GLD and US 41 are about the only 1/4 mile tracks still open within a reasonable distance.
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broadway bob lives right on the property there the little house next to his antique shop is his house.
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Originally Posted by Harley-Davidson88
Their website shows they will be open Saturdays and Sundays in November...weather permitting. I think GLD and US 41 are about the only 1/4 mile tracks still open within a reasonable distance.
Weather for both tracks looks decent at this point for Sunday. GLD - 45 and mostly cloudy. US41 - 47 and partly cloudy. Hopefully one of the two will be open come Sunday. Whichever is open I will be there.
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