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One of them was a dragstrip at Terminal Island called Brotherhood Raceway Park, which finally closed in 1995, but not before Times Publisher Otis Chandler moved ink and muscle to preserve it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2022

Otis had helped to save, for L.A.’s Black and Brown drag-racers, the dragstrip that Big Willie had helped to put together after the Watts riots and keep it together after the Rodney King one.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2022

Before you could count to five, the race on the 132-foot-long makeshift dragstrip was over.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021

Before its opening, Peterson claimed the dragstrip would be “the finest in the east.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 1, 2016

Dressed smartly in a blue Air Force uniform with four gleaming silver stars, General David C. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, candidly admitted that he still favored the dragstrip approach.

From Time Magazine Archive