Traindiesel posted:Dr. Jack posted:In the 90,s and before inside the racetrack was FULL of cars.
That was before the Orange Hall was built. Now all those cars from the infield track are parked on the paved Orange Hall lot.
Both true.
One additional tidbit for this meet is that there was an area of the main lot near Orange that was blocked off with concrete barriers (the last "corner" of the lot, between Gold/Orange, up to the edge along Highland Ave - the road that comes in to that area from the front of the racetrack sort of defined the line of barriers, I think). Some of the cars that ended up in the infield might have been over here if it was open. I half worried that that corner of the fairgrounds was possibly being prepared to sell off, maybe putting a Wawa there or something. Maybe it is just something more routine like re-paving.
Digging back in time, I remember my first York experience (April 1997, Saturday only for me - I had just started working the month before!), I ended up parked under a tree in an area that was probably somewhere in the area that became the rear of the Orange Hall (or maybe the grass area that is still back there where some dealers park now).
Yes, it was busier back then, I remember for at least several years after that always strategically trying to park along the outer edge of the racetrack, as it was sort of central to everything (before Orange was built). A bad location (if I arrived later) ended up being parked on the outer perimeter along Carlisle Ave once or twice.
-Dave
