This picture is at an intersting place...it is basically across from the pits, but there was a time when there were hundreds of tree stumps along the shoreline. I'm not sure when they may "SQUAW DAM", but the dam forms Lake Moovalia..where the Blue Wate Casino is today...When they first flooded this area there were tree along the shoreline and when they flooded the area, the tree line gave you an idea where the water got deeper...
In the 1970 Parker Nine Hour, Alan Stenson and I were in a serious battle for second and third place...with no idea we could win....The last two hours, I could pass him throu the "S" turns but he could out run me int he long "Shoots"....As i'd get ahead of him through the "S" turns, I'd see him coming so I'd hug the treeline, for awhile He'd back off and follow me to the tunr, but, he realized I was getting away from him, so when I "BLOCKED" him using the "TREE LINE", Alna just started running over the submerged trees. To his surprise and mine, he just started "Mowing" the trees do like "POPCORN"...He went flying by me, and seriously, tree branches went flying by my head....
The raced end up, with Stinson winning by a foot, with my second and Bobby Witt, Witt Marine, Baytown, Texas, third....
After the 1970 there were no more tree stumps on the back strech at Parker...
This is about where Freddy Hauenstein's transom came out of Jmmy's Burgess, and he blew over and broke his back..but the capsule saved him....
This is me in my Scotti, about 1973..."Fast" Freddy Hauenstein was driving with me...If I still had this boat, I'd run her in October at the Parker 300!!!
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