re: Pictures from days gone by....

went there one time as a 13 yr. old around 1967.

later, in the mid to late 70's a friend and I road our motorcycles on a dirt track there; sliding around the curves.

I'm thinking it was the same track, unless someone had built a dirt track near the speedway.
fun times, but that was the only time we did that.
spent a lot of time riding motorcycles on the Mississippi River, levees and bar pits south of BTR.

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Seeing the guy in his man cave, I wonder why, in old houses, the receptacle is so low. right above the baseboard.

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in his case it was probably added specifically for the window unit A/C which required a grounded 3-prong outlet

rest of the house receptacles were almost certainly all 2-prong

This is Margaret Gorman, the woman who won the very first Miss America competition in 1921:

John Held drew the portrait of the Roaring '20s