Motor sports of all kinds owe a great debt to Ascot Park, where all manner of engines roared for 33 years. The half-mile dirt track on 37 acres of land at Vermont Avenue and 182nd Street actually was located in Harbor Gateway on City of Los Angeles land just east of Gardena. But the track, which had a Gardena mailing address, always was associated with the city. “Come to Ascot, where the 110, the 405 and the 91 freeways collide!” boomed Jay Agajanian for years on radio commercials for the speedway. It’s long gone now, demolished in early 1991… read more >
Soap Box Derby Was Never More Popular Than it was in the ’50s and ’60s
For Conshohocken Soap Box Derby everything changed in 1952, thanks in part to Edward and William Moore the local derby was now sanctioned by the
