Twenty-seven years ago this month — on July 13, 1985 — Bowie Race Track ceased operations as a racetrack. It continues as a training center, albeit with what most believe is an increasingly short lease on life. Our Monday Movie, produced by Elliott Klayman in 1985, features Bowie’s last days as a racetrack as well as some then-pending changes at Laurel and Pimlico (including the new, now-defunct, Sports Palace). Note the big crowds at the now-defunct oval and other visual markers of a different era! As always, thanks to intrepid filmmaker Jeff Krulik for sleuthing out this great video!
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Sasscer Hill
July 30, 2012 at 8:23 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The days that are no more! No I know why my great aunt used this expression so often . . .
Sasscer
Lynda O'Dea
July 31, 2012 at 1:46 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
How lovely to see this video that Ted Mudge sent me. I never saw it and barely remember doing it. My family will just love seeing me with such big hair & small waist! Thanks to Jeff Krulik and Elliott Klayman for sharing it.
admin
July 31, 2012 at 3:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Thanks for checking in, Sasscer and Lynda, and for visiting. Good memories from a bygone era in local racing.
Bill Daly
August 7, 2012 at 5:30 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I was there on Bowie’s final day and never will forget the giveaway all paying customers received: a plastic keychain vial of Bowie dirt – allegedly from the finish line! There’s a moral there somewheres….
admin
August 8, 2012 at 12:46 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What a great memory, Bill! I dunno what the moral is, though… do you still have the vial?