Here are the photos of where Mohawk Speedway was at one time.
Faxon was one of my favorite tracks, Charles Lupi had a handle on the prep of the clay there. Flat out racing for the winged micros there. Pete Frazier took the ASCS2 tour to Faxon a couple of times. They raced motorcycles there as well. Black Widow was also a Motorcycle raceway, as well as Buddy Cagle Speedway at Vera and Thunderbird in Foyil, Oklahoma north of Claremore. DeAnza in Jenks was an oiled clay/sand short track motorcycle raceway located at the north end of the Jones Airport then Riverside Airport runway. The late great Randy Cleek was one of hte track champions there.
I too remember the asphalt oval below I-44 on the North side near the river. I had seen a few kart racers practicing there once in a while. Not sure if it still exists, but will pop by there to take a photo if it does to add to the list.
The late Dutch Myers of Myers Harleydavidson owned the track you mentioned near 71st and Memorial. It was where Woodland Hills Mall is now. Myers son sold the land to the company that built the mall, cashed in and retired off to the Islands to the south Caribian.
Curley Sutton was the promoter about the time I came along riding my Honda 90 when I was 14. That was the first motorcycle race I had ever seen live. Must of had a major influence on me, considering I have never stopped working in and around motorcycle racing since that day. LOL Herb Hoo Doo Howard, Johnny McAnally, Joe Wilson among others raced there on big twin and 600cc single motorcycles. It was a Hare Scrambles track that had some awesome burms built up almost like a bowl where they turned the bikes in left and right hand corners on the dirt track. The announcers scoring press box was built from wood and painted white. I always parked my motorcyle next to it and watched from underneath at first out of the sun. Later I met Curley and he invited me to come up in the tower, then I started out working as a corner flag marshal in turn one at John Zink 1/2 mile near Skiatook, Oklahoma, Curley also promoted the races at the Zink ranch and at Thunderbird later on. I have announced motorcycle and micro races at Thunderbird, Faxon City, Port City Raceway among others.
Joe Wilson became a district representative for Kawasaki Motor Corporation and was the person that got Herb {Hoo Doo} and Lucy Howard into the Kawasaki franchise in Tulsa. Herb named it Action Cycles. Dick and Sally Lane and Robert Foust (Frosty) later joined as partners along with Lonnie Godwin in Herb and Lucy's Kawasaki business. They had separate locations and names for their dealerships then. Sally and Dick bought out their shares and moved their operations to Grand Lake.
Here are the photos of Mohawk. Barry Grable and I are going to travel to Vera and Dewey next week if the rain slows down to capture stories and photos of those two tracks. We may even swing by Thunderbird and get a photo of that one. Lights and fence is still up at Thunderbird, the club house is now a bar and a bait shop for the nearby lake. Fisherman's Warf it is called.
This is the intersection where everyone entered the Mohawk Speedway racetrack on Saturdays. You can almost see the cars on the open trailers lined up down the road.
This is Atlanta Avenue that led into the racetrack. The Pit Entrance is on the left down this road. This is looking North on Atlanta Avenue just north of 36th Street North in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This is furher down the street. The street is Atlanta Avenue at 36th Street intersection. Track was on the left or west side of Atlanta between Atlanta and Lewis Avenue.
This view is looking back to the South from the end of Atlanta and pit road, track would of been on the right side of the road in this photo.
We believe this was turns 3&4 if the stands were on the West side facing East. This photo was shot from the Pit Road which is just West of Atlanta and intersects Atlanta on the South and North ends of the property.
