What's happening to you America?

[popeyespappy]

Really? I was born at Jax NAS and spent a good part of the 60s in Orange Park. It wasn’t much more than wide spot in the road then. A niece and a nephew graduated from Orange Park. Would have been late 90s early 00s timeframe for them.


Oh and Pops raced there....

Yep. And after the short season at Orange Park all the loving dog owners would take thier greyhounds down to Bayard.

I was actually in the first class from Orange Park that didn't get to use the Orange Park Kennel Club for graduation. The previous class apparantly brought too many tennis balls to the ceremony. If you are sincere then you will also remember that the Windrifter was just across the street.

Ah yes, the Windrifter. The Best Western hotel bar where older ladies fulfilled thier Top Gun fantasies with pilots that flew the P-3. Let's just say that I received a first class education at the Windrifter. After all, there weren't enough pilots to go around and the ladies proved that being a pilot wasn't the prmary qualification.

lol! I wouldn't remember much about bars as we left in 68 when I was 6. I've been back a couple of times because my ex's brother lived there, but I've never been to the track. Pops was adopted in Nashville after his broke his leg there.

You can look him up here but I think you have to register for free to access the page that lists his races. He ran 15 races at Jacksonville and another 36 races at Orange Park. It shows him as pulled up in the last race because that's when he was injured. He had already broken a different leg at Bluff's Run before they shipped him off to Florida.