[hurryinhoosier62]

Originally Posted by Skip Fix

My Dad was a big photographer (his Dad made movies in the 40s and 50s). He was at Purdue in 1949 getting his Masters in Mechanical Engineering -after WWII delayed his Texas A&M Bachelor in ME. He always talked about going to Indy while there so I think these must be from them.

Yep. The pits on the front straightaway when the old grandstands were still at IMS.

[Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62

Yep. The pits on the front straightaway when the old grandstands were still at IMS.

That's what I thought I was seeing. When men were men.
Curious about the refrigerators spaced along the wall down the front stretch. I wonder if they where for cold drinking water for the drivers, or something else. Refrigeration was still pretty new in the late forties, I'm thinking.