Board Tracks Thread? Pics, stories, locations...

Hello fellow motorized bicycle riders,

Board Tracks...
...well we are building Board Track rides, and with that thought I stumbled across this pic with my story of how it came about.

My cousin originally from Ebensburg, Pa. was a pilot who worked flying over Pennsylvania taking pics in the 1930s/40s. I have a few of these and here's the one of Tipton, Pa. aka Altoona Speedway from the end of 1938 of the speedway. As you can see it was dirt by then, due to the danger of the board tracks, all were dismantled, burned, or converted to dirt.

Here's a similar thread too:
http://stockcar.racersreunion.com/forum/topics/1981311:Topic:91620

So with this said I wondered if any of you had info on these great tracks and a great time and our interest in preserving and replicating in our similar fashion our motorized bicycle history.

MTBMoto

Add this mega thread over at the HAMB:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3926057

Here's a list from that:
Quite a few board tracks through the teens-20s, most were closer to the two coasts it seems.

Playa Del Rey, CA 1.0 mile 1910-1913
Elmhurst, CA 0.5mile 1911-1913
Chicago, IL (maywood) 2.0 miles 1915-1917
Des Moines,IA 1.0 mile 1915-1917
Omaha,NE 1.25 miles 1915-1917
Brooklyn,NY (Sheepshead Bay) 2.0 miles 1915-1919
Uniontown, PA 1.125 miles 1916-1922
Cincinnati, OH 2.0 miles 1916-1919
Tacoma, WA 2.0 miles 1915-1921
Beverly Hills, CA 1.25 miles 1920-1924
Fresno, CA 1.0 mile 1920-1927
San Carlos, CA 1.25 miles 1921-1922
Coati,CA 1.25 miles 1921-1922
Kansas City, MO 1.25 miles 1922-1924
Altoona, PA 1.25 miles 1923-1931
Charolette, NC 1.25 miles 1924-1927
Culver City, CA 1.25 miles 1924-1927
Salem, NH (Rockingham) 1.25 miles 1925-1927
Laurel, MD 1.125 miles 1925-1926
MIami, FL (Fulford-by-the-Sea) 1.25 miles 1926-1927
Amatol, NJ (Atlantic City) 1.5 miles 1926-1928
Woodbridge, NJ 0.5 mile 1929-1931
Akron , OH 0.5 mile (no dates)
Bridgeville, PA 0.5 mile (no dates)

MTBMoto