1984 FULL card at Roosevelt, where it all began!

[wizardofoz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwU_rw6Ikm0

[Mailbox Money]

Gr8 find! Brought back an old memory or two! 

[panhunter]

Me and my Dad used to take the bus from Waterbury,CT on Saturday nights back in the late 60's, early 70's.when 50 to 60 thousand would show up.Three decks and the apron packed.
Real exciting times back then, great memories.

[Mazola]

Me and my Dad used to take the bus from Waterbury,CT on Saturday nights back in the late 60's, early 70's.when 50 to 60 thousand would show up.Three decks and the apron packed.
Real exciting times back then, great memories.

Awesome. Wasn't the FFA going for 25 or 30 k back then when other tracks were 5k?.

[mtnskipper]

 Yes. Stone faced Arthur Nason took Mountain Skipper down from NH after getting tossed from Rockingham for winning too often their 5k invite to race in their Saturday night 25k Open Handicap. They wouldn't let him drive so he threatened to scratch. They relented an he went wire to wire and paid 7.60.

[SeattleSlew]

I lived on the South Shore of LI and my wife and I occupied the clubhouse box seats on the finish line in the front row at least 3 nights/week for almost all of the meets from 1974 through RR's closing.  When they were wrecking the place, my wife went in and slipped the construction guys $50 ($150 today) and took those two seats out to our car.  We have now moved away across the country, but I still the those seats (along with too much other "stuff") in a storage locker.

[old guy]

I lived on the South Shore of LI and my wife and I occupied the clubhouse box seats on the finish line in the front row at least 3 nights/week for almost all of the meets from 1974 through RR's closing.  When they were wrecking the place, my wife went in and slipped the construction guys $50 ($150 today) and took those two seats out to our car.  We have now moved away across the country, but I still the those seats (along with too much other "stuff") in a storage locker.

 

[sledge hammer]

I lived on the South Shore of LI and my wife and I occupied the clubhouse box seats on the finish line in the front row at least 3 nights/week for almost all of the meets from 1974 through RR's closing.  When they were wrecking the place, my wife went in and slipped the construction guys $50 ($150 today) and took those two seats out to our car.  We have now moved away across the country, but I still the those seats (along with too much other "stuff") in a storage locker.

 

[Open bridle]

I lived on the South Shore of LI and my wife and I occupied the clubhouse box seats on the finish line in the front row at least 3 nights/week for almost all of the meets from 1974 through RR's closing.  When they were wrecking the place, my wife went in and slipped the construction guys $50 ($150 today) and took those two seats out to our car.  We have now moved away across the country, but I still the those seats (along with too much other "stuff") in a storage locker.

The 70's & 80's were the heydays of on track harness racing no matter what track you were at. The crowds told the story of great racing and good times back then. Great memories with family and friends.

[Weirwolf]

Brings back some great memories. What a loss to the industry this place was

[wizardofoz]

If they would have held on to it and not sold it to those bums there would have been a racino there that people on Long Island would have flocked too and even Queens and Brooklyn. Yonkers of all places wound up with a racino.

[seen2much]

Thank you for posting the memories of RR.