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Topic: Question for Galen, Mike Howard or other SFS bleacher veterans
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January 24, 2008 at
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When I started going back to the fairgrounds weekly back in 1982, there was this older lady with her son that always sat on the North end, right by the breezeway down next to the rail on the top row. He had a cane and a couple of years later he had his leg amputated if I recall. He was a security guard or something of the sort at a hospital I think. I saw them every Friday night and we talked all the time and she would tell me about her husband, midgets and Taft Stadium.
In the Holtz years of the 90's, I quit going every Friday night and went chasing races all over the place and then noticed they quit coming. Who were they, what was the name of that ladys husband and what ever became of them?
David Smith Jr.
www.oklahomatidbits.com
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January 25, 2008 at
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This message was edited on
January 25, 2008 at
06:46:37 AM by Galen
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Posted By: David Smith Jr on January 24 2008 at 06:07:04 PM
When I started going back to the fairgrounds weekly back in 1982, there was this older lady with her son that always sat on the North end, right by the breezeway down next to the rail on the top row. He had a cane and a couple of years later he had his leg amputated if I recall. He was a security guard or something of the sort at a hospital I think. I saw them every Friday night and we talked all the time and she would tell me about her husband, midgets and Taft Stadium.
In the Holtz years of the 90's, I quit going every Friday night and went chasing races all over the place and then noticed they quit coming. Who were they, what was the name of that ladys husband and what ever became of them?
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I know the lady you're speaking of, and if I remember correctly, her husband was Eddie Carmichael. He drove junk cars and then moved into the midgets at Taft. He never had really decent equipment. She and her son had a nearly complete set of programs from Taft Stadium, which I of course lusted after, and she did let me borrow a bunch of them when I was first researching local racing history. I'm afraid I don't know what happened to her. Her son had some physical problems, and they may have had to stop coming for that reason. In the Tidbits From the Past entries I did on O'Hara, there's a photo of Carmichael...he's the one wearing what appears to be a miner's hat for a helmet.
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