Posted by John T on May 25, 2014 at 06:14:08 from (216.249.72.121):
So, been watching the pre race activities and talking heads and will watch live coverage later, but nostalgia and old memories of "the way it used to be" for myself as a Hoosier saddens me. In the fifties n sixties I remember always listening to Sid Collins broadcast and having cookouts or going camping while the Uncles (all dead n gone now) played catch with us kids and we had to go to the icehouse to buy 25 cent block ice which we chopped up using ice picks. Lots of the old fashion metal coke coolers and hot dogs. It was the days of AJ Foyt and Parnelli Jones and Eddie Sachs and Roger Ward and the Unsers and Andrettis and the old roadsters with Offys or the famous screaming NOVI and Granatellis Turbine almost winning WOWWWWWWW those were the days. I will never forget the first time Donald Davidson from the UK came to the track and he could name the finishing drivers and positions for allllllllll races strictly from memory.
Back then the entire month of May was concerned with the race, 2 weekends of qualifying and the bumping on the last day was exciting BUT THEN THE CART AND INDY RACING LEAUGE FEUD ERUPTED AND IN MY OPINION THINGS WENT DOWN HILL FROM THAT POINT grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr The race or month of May has never been the same.........
Its like an author stated "you can never go home again" but I have such fond memories of those Indy 500 race days when I was young and all my extended family were there, while todays 500 just doesn't measure up for me at least.
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