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Entry Date: 3/11/2010 - Jeff Cook: It''s sad to see anyone in opposition, I''m not going to get in any argements with anyone it''s just sad......

One thing people are not opening their ears to is the fact that back "in the day" No one ran mufflers, the first thing everyone did was to by a set of headers and uncork them to race. It''s a whole different world now, nearly everyone runs with mufflers and an exhaust system. Also the cement barriers along the track will do wonders for helping to contain the "noise"
I honestly don''t think it will take long for everyone to see a positive impact on the township and surrouonding areas.


Entry Date: 3/11/2010 - Jason: I live less than a mile away and have to say I''m oppose, not a popular opinion on this website for sure. My problem is that I really don''t want to live next to a dragway but my property value is going to take a big hit, it''s just a fact based on research, it''ll go down 15 to 20%. The current proposal has no provisions for sound barriers, and there''s no noise ordinance in the Township. Many of the people that attended the Public Hearing came from outside the Township.

Entry Date: 3/10/2010 - : My bad. Address is 242 Hecla Street

Entry Date: 3/10/2010 - jim: In the mid 90''s I lived in Detroit and enjoyed venturing into the abandoned treasures of the city. I wandered about the old Riviera and made my way to some upper offices that must have been used as storage as the floor was littered about knee deep in canceled checks and between show announcements for coming features, most from the late 30''s into the mid 50''s.
I could not see the sense of all this being destroyed so I went to my car and got some trash bags and managed to fill about 3 of them up and take them home. To this day I have boxes of paper work from the place!
It was sad as by the time I was in there, the only thing that showed that it was a theater was the massive fire curtain hanging in tatters by the stage, the ornate plaster ceiling long fallen to the floor and the seats having turned to rotten mush.
I did make a return visit later in the year with a friend and we brought some tools and managed to liberate a few of the cast iron usher seats from the ends of the rows.

Entry Date: 3/10/2010 - John M: I worked at Cinema City (Warren Cinema) during the summers 84-85 - good times. I worked with Gary and Brian and a bunch of other friends. I remember how the sun would be setting in the full face of the box office and you could not see the cashiers behind the glass. I remember making popcorn for hours on Saturdays which was right across the hall from the projection room. Listening to my portable tape deck with Aerosmith''s greatest hits in the tape player. Midnight shows of Rocky Horror were the best. I felt sorry for the cleaning crew but everyone had a great time. I still recall all the prom kids throwing toast and going crazy with squirt guns and newspaper.

I''ll never forget the day I met Molly at the theater. She changed my life.

Hated to see the place close all those years ago.

Entry Date: 3/10/2010 - Kathy: Does any one have an old audio commercial for TriCity Dragway?

Entry Date: 3/10/2010 - summer: How many of you actually live in Onondaga township? If you don''t how can you say you know how a dragway is going to affect the residents and the wild life around it?

Entry Date: 3/10/2010 - Jeff Cook: A website is in the works, I will keep this site up to date....

Entry Date: 3/10/2010 - D. Roberts: Paul Stewart, of Kalamazoo, originally co-owned the Jack the Bear ''57 Chevy, prior to building and racing the Jack the Bear Camaro with his brother-in-law, Craig Clapp. Rick Stratton, who co-owns R&M Auto Body in Kalamazoo, now owns both cars.

Entry Date: 3/9/2010 - Paul: I went there many times as a kid. To bad that there are no photos, but I do have a brick from the demolition. I was watching it come down years ago and took a brick.

Entry Date: 3/8/2010 - Dave Luzynski: I am GLAD to see the Drive in is still open on the weekends during the winter. I love the atmosphere of the Drive In and see as many movies I can there. It is a great place to take the family and the FM sound has greatly improved (the speakers are still available as well). The Ford Wyoming is a Dearborn icon and I hope it will stay that way for many years to come! Thank you Martin for carrying on the tradition.

Entry Date: 3/8/2010 - Lauren: I rode past the old Duke theatre on the bus today (March 8, 2010), and the old Squire sign was taken down and the Marquee displaying "Starlite Lanes" was exposed. It''s a bluish sign with white lettering

Entry Date: 3/8/2010 - John:  WHEN WILL THE BOARD MEET TO DECIDE? DOES ANYBODY KNOW?

Entry Date: 3/7/2010 - RON GARZA: Onondaga Dragway is going to open back up.

Entry Date: 3/7/2010 - Ron Gross: I went to the hearing the other night, and heard pretty much the same things that I heard at the 1985 hearing, lots of support and a few angry neighbors. I was certainly surprised when they approved the permit! Hopefully the board will approve this and we can get to racing, this has been a long time coming. Also, I saw nothing in the news about this (unlike 1985), and nothing online except for Ray Comer''s post on this site. The dragway needs a website!

Entry Date: 3/7/2010 - : Address of theater is

235 Hecla Street
Laurium MI 49913

Building was razed a few years ago and lot is now empty

Entry Date: 3/5/2010 - Karen: this is karen its been a while but i have been busy well i would love to get the track up and running but its not in my budget if i hit the millions well maybe then i could test my monty carlo and that would be a dreame of mine well i enjoy all of the memories you all are sharing and
keep on racing karen

Entry Date: 3/5/2010 - mark h: sonic,the fastfood drive in, and about the next month or so there going to tare it down.

Entry Date: 3/5/2010 - Dennis Holly: P.S. To the dragstrip site master,
Gratten Raceway use to hold Drag Races on sundays too. You might want to add this to the Dragstrip file. I have pics of the racing and also a Trophy for winning my class in 1974. Ken

Entry Date: 3/5/2010 - Terry Compton: Met my wife at the Willow Run Drive-In...June 7, 1985....we were in high school.

Entry Date: 3/5/2010 - Ed K.: A sonic what? Do you mean a spa or sauna facility? Please clarify.

Entry Date: 3/5/2010 - Jeff Cook: I would like to thank everyone that came to the meeting on the 2nd, its not a "done deal" yet, this still has to go through the Township board...
Huge thanks go out to Ray Comer, Dan Pranshka and Gary Long for their hard work and dedication to the rebirth of this track, without them a horse pasture and corn field would be all there is to see.
This is a dream come true for hundreds of mid Michigan and surrounding area racers, hopefully the shot in the arm for the township will allow us to grow hours of opperation in the future.........

Entry Date: 3/5/2010 - Ed K.: The last time I drove past the theater the front of it was stripped including the marquee. Did someone buy it or is it being torn down?

Entry Date: 3/5/2010 - Joseph Tomczyk: This caught my attention due to my 1970 involvement with the demise of Garrick Photo located on the eastside of Woodward near Temple. Owned / operated by its founding Mr. Garrick, who built it over decades to its widely-known peak, his partners then were his two sons; one of whom was Marvin who was quite active with Freemasonry.

As to whether my above comment relates to this web-site, at a minimum it''s likely that the provenance of many historic photos hereon include ye olde Garrick Photo.

Entry Date: 3/5/2010 - jesse forton: hi everyone . my name is jesse forton and my dad joe raced at motor city in the 50s his car number was 011 i was just hoping anyone had a pix of dads car as it would be very special to me

Entry Date: 3/2/2010 - Dan Nepstad: Congrats to the owners/operators of Onondaga Dragway! The township approved their special permit! I can''t wait to see cars in competition on the track. Great job guys, you brought back a piece of living history. If y''all need help, Wildhorsesclub.net has plenty interested if you need anything.

Entry Date: 3/2/2010 - Larry Gourley: I have a lucky number program from hastings raceway it looks like it is from the 50''s I think it was a souveneir of my dads from his childhood. The program is starting to fall apart from age but it is really cool with an aerial view of the track.I think my dad used to go to the races there when he came up from Indiana with my grandparents to visit relatives. I was pleased to find this site when I googled Hastings Raceway.

Entry Date: 3/2/2010 - mark h: there is said to be a sonic there.

Entry Date: 3/2/2010 - Janice Covey: My husband has a red silk (original) Detroit Dragway jacket, size large. He was there quite often watching the races. I used to go to Detroit Dragway with my cousin, Jerry Chouinard, we had an absolute ball. It''s a shame that it isn''t open for our kids to enjoy. :-(

Entry Date: 3/2/2010 - Dan Nepstad: Hey Ray, some of us from the Wildhorses Mustang Club will be there to support your efforts at Onondaga Township Hall tonight. Good luck, we all are pulling for you and the track!
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