Indy--The Golden Brickyard
May, 1968
When the first Indianapolis 500-mile race was run in 1911, the Speedway management thoughtfully provided 3000 hitching posts for horses and the house was priced 50 cents, $1 and $1.50. No provision is made for horse-borne trade today and the price spread is $5 to $35. What else is new? The track is still the same flattened oval laid out in 1909, two and a half miles around, the long straights five eighths of a mile, the short ones one eighth, the turns one quarter, banked at 9 degrees, 12 minute...
