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[raisin27]

Dont know if this has been posted before but I ran across this pic of the rock band Buffalo Springfield racing slot cars in 1967 (and you thought they were only famous for the music).

Raisin

[Pat McGee]

Hello, Mr. Soul, there's something happening here... (sorry...).

[MSwiss]

Best BS song...

 

On the Way Home... FWIW... LOL.

[Pat McGee]

FWIW... Nice play, Mike! 

[Tex]

Now the question is... where was Republic Raceway?

 

Nice find on the pic.

[Dennis David]

Man, now that takes me back. Used to hitch hike to the city (SF) and hang out.

Seems that track was in Hermosa Beach

[don.siegel]

Yep, nice find - was it in a magazine, or just a photo found somewhere? 

 

Hmm, we've seen the Beatles, Paul Revere and a few other groups, but never this one! 

 

Don 

[NSwanberg]

For what is is worth I can never remember the name of that Viet Nam war protest song they did?

[raisin27]

Yep, nice find - was it in a magazine, or just a photo found somewhere? 
 
Hmm, we've seen the Beatles, Paul Revere and a few other groups, but never this one! 

 

I had Youtube up on the computer playing "one hit wonders" as I was doing my morning reports at work. They were playing For what its worth and I just happened to look up at the screen noticing the word "raceway"

[tonyp]

Where the action is used to film groups lip syncing at venues like slot car tracks, any thing that was popular with the kids.

[Phil Hackett]

For what is is worth I can never remember the name of that Viet Nam war protest song they did?

 

"For What It's Worth"?  - The song is about protests surrounding a demolition of a popular Hollywood teenager hangout.

 

Then there was "Ohio", but that was CSNY…..

[Tex]

That may be what the song was written about, but it definitely became synonymous with protesting the Vietnam war.

[JimF]

There was a Republic Raceway in Hermosa.....I lived in Manhattan and began my slot racing addiction there and even worked there a little. It was about a 30 min walk or IIRC a 5 cent bus ride. The track was owned by a gentleman named John Power, (Powers?) and had two mirror image Engleman style tracks back to back in the middle of an obviously large space. I don't remember the big logo backdrop but it was a long time ago and I might have been looking at it every day. Probably though, it was free hanging and only brought out for shots like this. This pic (could) be showing the doorway to the right which would have led back to where the pool tables were. If so, the area behind the backdrop was a pit area with shelving built against the wall. If that were the case, they would be sitting along the main back straight of one of the two Engleman style tracks. However, they do appear to be sitting at a drivers panel and there is no camera angle that I can visualize that would have that logo backdrop and that doorway visible from either driver's panel.

 

Nice find................a pr shot I'd suspect.

[Gary Bluestone]

Neil Young is seated on the left, became involved with Lionel trains.(From Wikipedia) Lionel rolled out RailSounds, heralding an era of high-tech audio realism. In 1992 Richard Kughn and musician Neil Young, an avid model railroader, created Liontech, chartered to develop exclusive new model train control and sound systems. Liontech's RailSounds II debuted in 1994.

Also debuting in 1994 was the brainchild of Neil Young, Lionel's Trainmaster Command Control, a technology similar to Digital Command Control which permits, among other things, the operation of Lionel trains by remote control. Richard Kughn sold Lionel in 1995.  Neil Young now had a 20% stake in the company. Maybe we can interest him in slot car manufacturing.

[ravajack]

Stephen Stills at the track with the car in the pic above.

 

 

[tonyp]

[tonyp]

Sorry the copy is not better.

[mjsh]

Damn,  that  is  almost as tight as Elmsford.

[Mr. M]

Looks like a purchase and receipt in Neil Young’s hand. What could it be? Anyone recognize the package?

[John Streisguth]

The guy all the way to the left is Richie Furay.  Neil Young is just to his right, on the lower seat

[MSwiss]

I'm not a collector, but some Revell boxes had checkerboard on them.

PS-that's not Neil Young, it's Richie Furay.

[drrufo]

Saw them at a concert at Harbor College in Harbor City. in SoCal. They were the undercard for the Dillards.

[Phil Beukema]

There was a Republic Raceway in Hermosa.....I lived in Manhattan and began my slot racing addiction there and even worked there a little. It was about a 30 min walk or IIRC a 5 cent bus ride. The track was owned by a gentleman named John Power, (Powers?) and had two mirror image Engleman style tracks back to back in the middle of an obviously large space. I don't remember the big logo backdrop but it was a long time ago and I might have been looking at it every day. Probably though, it was free hanging and only brought out for shots like this. This pic (could) be showing the doorway to the right which would have led back to where the pool tables were. If so, the area behind the backdrop was a pit area with shelving built against the wall. If that were the case, they would be sitting along the main back straight of one of the two Engleman style tracks. However, they do appear to be sitting at a drivers panel and there is no camera angle that I can visualize that would have that logo backdrop and that doorway visible from either driver's panel.

 

Nice find................a pr shot I'd suspect.

 

I know Hermosa Beach well, do you remember where in Hermosa?

[Phil Beukema]

Saw them at a concert at Harbor College in Harbor City. in SoCal. They were the undercard for the Dillards.

 

 

I graduated from Harbor. If I said where I was going quickly, people thought I said Harvard......

[drrufo]

yup