PRESS RELEASE
Roby Speedway Presentation – Sunday, February 21
February 10, 2009
For Immediate Release:
Hammond, Ind.—Auto racing historian Jerry Murawski will give a historical presentation regarding Hammond’s Roby Speedway on Sunday afternoon, February 21, at the Hammond Public Library – Howard Branch.
Murawski, a Chicago Heights, Ill. resident, has spent years researching and documenting the one-mile dirt speedway, which operated between 1920 and 1936. The track was located west of Indianapolis Boulevard, bordered by 108th Street on the north, 112th Street on the south and State Line Road to the west, just east of the Hammond/Chicago border.
Part of the threesome of horse racing tracks built in the late 1800’s in the Hammond/Whiting area, the Roby facility became a popular Midwestern auto racing “speed plant” in the 1920’s and 30’s with numerous drivers testing their skills on the big track with many of them eventually competing in the Indianapolis 500.
The library is located at 7047 Grand Ave. in Hammond. The presentation will begin at 2:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call (219) 923-1475.
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Stan Kalwasinski
(219) 923-1475