Fort Erie
This is going to be long and as time goes on it will get sloppier and sloppier as I am recalling a lot of stuff from say 1965 when I was 5 years old to today (the sloppier part is the vodka)
Let me start off by saying I am hoping that this is a "stunt", to draw attention in Ontario to the largest employer, in the busiest US/Canadian border crossing area.
Second Ft Erie is a recreational town and area. The track, the Canadian ballet, the beaches, the chinese food, that has been feeding people from the states since the 40's when most of the US had no idea about chinese food.
Regular Americans with cottages at the beach, and an almost Long Islandish beach mansion area from when Buffalo was a "power city", ending in the early 70's.
To the racing....I was the oldest of three, born in 1960, a sister in '61 and another male in 1963. My family (extended) always had cottages rented at Crystal Beach, which was a world class resort until Disney did his thing.
To you folks who have children, I would guess that you would be familiar with the all day pout. I do not have children so I do not have to endure this, but I sure did it. On the days once or twice a year the old man would go to the track w/ the buddies from work, I was a hellion. HE WAS AT THE TRACK AND I WAS STUCK HERE AT HOME. I cried and misbehaved all day.
That was when the OJC ran the place, not the same people as today. By that I mean not the same Woodbine who run racing now. When the OJC was made up of an exclusive club of the elite in Canadian racing.
They ran a three track circuit, open with Greenwood, onto Ft Erie spring meet, and then they would go to Woodbine, spend August @ Ft. Erie back to Woodbine and finish out the fall early winter at Greenwood.
Greenwood land value later made for a sale as it was part of the Greater Toronto Area. Disappointed I never made it there, although my friends were after seeing Phathom and a was leaning against a wall FT. Erie when they start simulcast
|