Pawtucket, RHODE ISLAND - Narragansett Race Track - 1936 for Sale

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Pawtucket, RHODE ISLAND - Narragansett Race Track - 1936:
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Pawtucket, RHODE ISLAND - Narragansett Race Track - 1936: Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 75,604 at the 2020 census, making the city the fourth-largest in the state. Narragansett Park was an American race track for Thoroughbred horse racing in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. On May 18, 1934, Rhode Island voters approved a measure legalizing parimutuel betting by an almost 3 to 1 margin. The following day, the Narragansett Racing Association announced plans for a $1 million race track and steeplechase course on the site of the former What Cheer Airport and filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State of Rhode Island. The Association chose to name their track after Narragansett Park, a former trotting park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. On June 6, 1934, the Narragansett Racing Association was awarded the state\'s first horse racing permit. Construction was completed in less than two months at a cost of $1.2 million. The track consisted of a one-mile racing oval, a 14,000 seat grandstand, 270 betting and paying booths, a clubhouse, and 22 barns with stalls that could hold more than 1,000 horses. Narragansett Park opened on August 1, 1934, with 37,281 people in attendance, including Jack Dempsey, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., and Jesse H. Metcalf. The track\'s first card consisted of eight races. The feature race was a $5,000 added six furlongs sprint for three-year-old and up won by Chinese Empress, a three-year-old chestnut filly. The mutuel handle for the day was $351,482. On Labor Day 1934 the track drew 53,922 patrons, the most for any sporting event in the history of Rhode Island. This Linen Era postcard, published in 1936, is in good condition. Genuine Curteich-Chicago. “C.T. Art Colortone”. No. 6A-H568. Berger Bros., Providence.