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South Main Speedrome On Eagle Ave. & Main St.


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This race track had me confused for a month.  Some of the historic race track books and databases list the wrong thing! Wouldn't be a first. I remember the misspelling of "Almedo Speedway" for Almeda Speedway.

South Main Speedrome located on Eagle Avenue and South Main Street.  I went to Google Earth and couldn't find a track there in Midtown by The Ion. I then, mistakenly, typed Main Street at Eagle Avenue and it took me to Pasadena, TX!

South Main Speedrome - Houston - 1/5 mile dirt oval (4/07/46 - c. 7/10/47).
(AKA South Main Track) / located at South Main & Eagle Ave.

Another false, or mistaken, track listing:

South Main Track - Houston / possibly Arrowhead Park Speedway.
1/2 mile dirt oval (c. 1929) (1937 - c. 5/25/41 (1946 - 147).

The above would be the South Main Speedway located on Old Main Street Road, across from South Main Street. Circa 1929 is right. I have a map from 1930 that verifies it. Arrowhead Park Speedway is not close to the South Main Speedway as they suggested.

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The race track, if it's even called South Main Speedrome, is located closer to Shaver Street & at the end of Main Street.  Also located on the feeder road of Highway 225 / Pasadena Freeway by the Shaver exit.

Google Earth views from December 1944:

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