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Brotherhood Raceway Park

Brotherhood Raceway Park

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Brotherhood Raceway Park (sometimes referred to as Terminal Island Raceway) was a drag racing venue on Terminal Island which is between the neighborhood of San Pedro in the city of Los Angeles and the city of Long Beach.

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Background

In 1974, "Big Willie" Robinson and his wife Tomiko, opened the drag strip which hosted 1⁄4 mile drag racing. It opened on an old Navy airfield paying $1,000 per month to lease the facility. Over the next two decades, the track would lose and regain the temporary lease several times but would permanently close in 1995, displaced by a coal-handling plant.[1]

Today

Subsequent attempts to revive racing on the Terminal Island site, particularly when the coal facility closed, have not been successful.[2]

Film and television

The drag strip was featured in a 1995 episode of Visiting with Huell Howser.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Dennis McLellan (25 May 2012). "'Big Willie' Robinson dies at 69; L.A. drag race organizer". Los Angeles Times.
  2. [2]
    Daniel Strohl (31 December 2014). "Los Angeles street racers aim to bring drag racing back to Terminal Island". Hemmings Motor News.
  3. [3]
    "Brotherhood Raceway- Visiting (318) – Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University".
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