Family Sells Pop for Generations
This story comes from Jake.
My family and I worked worked at the Indy track in the fifties and
sixties. We sold pop corn, hot dogs, sodas... you name it.
My first Indy race was in 1953 and I fell in love with it. My Dad was a
friend of the Vukovich family and he talked to Billy Vukovich the day
before he was killed, and Billy told him that he was going to make
headlines the next day one way or the other, and of course he did, as
he was killed. My Dad was real down after that.
Anyway, we went on selling our food and sodas for the next few years,
and even our kids and grandkids after us worked there.
I left Indy in the sixties for work on the west coast, but I always had
Indy in my heart. I took my wife to the track on vacation in 1975 and
again in 1995 and it really hadn't changed much over all the years. Yes,
the bricks are gone, and the race cars have changed, but the smell of
racing and the atmosphere is the same.
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