There is no race track at the Texas State Fair. The filmmakers instead filmed all the race scenes at the Great State Fair of Oklahoma. I grew up near the facility and am quite familiar with the area. If you slow down the frame rate, you can make out the Coka Cola bottling facility. Races still take place year round. Only now there is talk of demolishing the grandstand in order to make more parking.
shareYeah, they finally tore it down Aug 2010. One step closer to being the Okla State Parking Lot. A sad lament to an event that was once one of the nations top 3 fairs.
shareI was wondering where they filmed the race.
How do we know for an absolute fact that hard work never killed anyone?
I will watch for that for sure, I have been in Oklahoma - mainly in OKC but went to school in Norman and briefly in Shawnee - all of my 44 years. So I might see something familiar! I know my parents will.
Sad about the races, I worked with people who fought very hard to keep them, i'm sorry we weren't successful. It is so sad when money is more important than memories and making new ones, I must have read a hundred letters of stories of generations of families who had gone. But Slick Mick made a deal with another city leader and i think that guy's SON now owns the land. Gross, isn't it?
Is the Coca Cola Bottling place on Broadway (that might be milk, i am sleepy!) or down by the State Fairgrounds? Thanks for that info, this is the kind of thing i have missed on imdb lately! :)