Daytona International Speedway, 1995
Daytona Beach (Fla.)
The Daytona International Speedway, located at 1801 West International Speedway Boulevard in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1995. Home of 500-mile-long National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) Spring Cup Series motor race, this race track was opened in 1959. Automobile and motorcycle races began in 1902, due to the smooth, compacted sand that covered the beach. Daytona Beach became the site of various land speed record attempts in the first half of the 20th century.<br /><br />On March 8, 1936, the first stock car race was held on the Daytona Beach Road Course, which is located in present-day Ponce Inlet. Bill France, Sr. (1909-1992), the founder of NASCAR, began planning the track's construction in 1953 to replace the beach course. The track was engineered by Charles Moneypenney and construction was completed in 1958. The track has been renovated in 1978, 2004, and 2010. New renovations for Project Daytona Rising is scheduled for completion in January of 2016. The track also hosts events for the Auto Racing Club of America (ARCA), the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA), Tudor United Sport scar Championship (USCC), the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA), and Motocross.
Original color photograph, 1995: Private Collection of Nancy Lynn Cepero.
Cepero, Nancy Lynn
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Special Olympics Track Practice at Lake Mary High School, 1997
Lake Mary (Fla.)
Schools
Special Olympics
Track and field--United States
People with disabilities--United States
A Special Olympics track practice at Lake Mary High School, located at 655 Longwood Lake Mary Road in Lake Mary, Florida, on April 12, 1997. Lake Mary High first opened in 1981. From 2002 to 2006, the school has underwent a $20 million construction and remodeling project.<br /><br />Special Olympics was founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009), the sister of President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), in 1968. The project began as a day camp for children with intellectual disabilities in June of 1962. The first International Special Olympics Summer Games were held in 1968 at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois.
Original color photograph, 1997: Private Collection of Nancy Lynn Cepero.
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Lake Mary High School, Lake Mary, Florida
Famous Entrance to Hialeah Race Course's New Club House Postcard
Hialeah (Fla.)
Hialeah Racetrack (Hialeah, Fla.)
Horse racing--Florida
A postcard depicting the new clubhouse at Hialeah Park Racing and Casino, located at 2200 East 4th Avenue in Hialeah, Florida. The race track was originally established by Glenn Curtiss (1878-1930) and James H. Bright for greyhound racing in 1922 and was used called the Miami Kennel Club. In 1930, after being several damaged by the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, the track was sold to Joseph E. Widener (1871-1943), who opened a renovated track with new clubhouses, under the name Hialeah Park, on January 14, 1932. On March 2, 1979, the race track was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and on January 12, 1988, the site became eligible for designation as a National Historic Landmark. In 2001, Hialeah Park stopped hosting races and closed the park to the public due to state law that decreased the race track's ability to compete with nearby courses. The park's stables were demolished in 2007. The race track reopened on November 28, 2009, several months after the state legislature and the Seminole Tribe of Florida came to an agreement allowing Hialeah Park to operate slot machines and to hold Quarter Horse races. <br /><br />This postcard is part of a collection of postcards kept by Lucile Campbell, a schoolteacher in Sanford, Florida, for 30 years. In 1931, she took advantage of a special rate for teachers and sailed to Europe, where she traveled for several months and is thought to have acquired many of these postcards. During the 1940-1941 school year, Campbell taught at Sanford Grammar School. Before her retirement in 1970, she taught at many other area schools, including the Oviedo School, Westside Grammar School, and Pinecrest Elementary School. Campbell used these postcards as aids in her classrooms to teach advanced subjects, such as Shakespearean drama. The collection, along with her other teaching aids, papers, and photographs, was later found at Sanford Grammar School after it became the University of Central Florida's Public History Center. Campbell's postcard collection and photographs provide insight into the life of a respected Florida educator.
Original 3 x 5 inch color postcard: ACC# SM-00-243, file folder 1 (U.S. blanks), box 10A, Lucile (Mary Lucile) Campbell Collection, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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Hialeah, Florida