SPOKANE COUNTY RACEWAY
I'm old enough to remember the original old strip up near Deer Park. I wasn't out there that much, as I was young, graduated in 66, and left for the Navy in spring of 68. So I was "gone."
Orville Moe has a REAL sordid history. I don't know if he was just a poor businessman part of the time, or what. He always seemed to get himself on a shoestring. Towards the end of his "rein" he lost affiliation with the track you know of. I forget the history? It went from NHRA (EDIT I guess it was ADRA not NHRA) to AHRA and ??? I don't know what. I can vaguely remember sometime in the 90's?? we went out there and the "crew" spent more time trying to get the starting line lights to work than they did racing. They actually had a couple of guys out there, one with a garbage can lid for a "tire" and another with a piece of cardboard, "test tripping" the starting lights.
To hear some of his family tell it, the whole thing was a conspiracy to take over the track and run him out of business.
