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Media Center and Darkroom Exploration

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Abandoned Rockingham Speedway: FULL TOUR! (Hidden NASCAR History In Storage)

What happens here

The hosts explore the former media center, a space once bustling with reporters and photographers. They find old equipment, including Sanyo TVs and phone hookups, showcasing the technology of the era. A dedicated darkroom for Associated Press photographers is also discovered, emphasizing the historical methods of photojournalism.

Goal: Explore the media center and its darkroom

Tools and materials

  • Flashlight — Illuminating dark spaces

What they say

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uh from what i know it was on the on the press box wasn't it oh so this is the old old one i was talking about the white letters in the same font that's up there now that say north carolina or speedway oh oh that one uh so there's only seven of those letters exist i think now um we found we found those gosh where did we find those i think we yeah we found them up in an old uh up in a room up there i can actually show them to you wow this is crazy so this is probably on like the old main press box before they built that one right that's crazy so they race arca here until 0.8 that's still 12 years ago look at these things i remember all sport from when i was like five mm-hmm all right have you ever found any like old pictures of these things back in the day or anything you know what i haven't i haven't we need to do some digging yeah right i love that this thing is still getting used racing returns to the rock how symbolic is that we got white letter bfgs on there it's all set if you guys watching this video are interested in this stuff make sure you hit the subscribe button because this is what we do now we find cool things like this and we look at it and show you things that no one has ever seen before so do it what is this place this is the old media center wow these are the old pairs from the conference room in the office is that a slot car track this is a 36 feet wide slot car track that has two massive like uh uh motors that inverters on it that uh that power it's there is so much power running through this thing it's terrifying um but yeah it's huge it's one of a kind it was built by an engineer in south carolina is that a boxing ring yes that is boxing is that a rcr banner from the last race here and then the truck series victory lane thing i would imagine okay so when are we going to set that up and have um post-race boxing matches here actually yeah i mean judging by the state of things it's probably coming pretty soon if i could have done homework in here i feel like i would have taken homework more seriously why do you walk in here and think homework first because it looks like a good spot to do homework no one can bother you and you can like look at cool stuff oh we got the lights on wow i feel like i'm in 1995 right now this is awesome i think these uh these oops that things these ethernet connections are 1995 too i believe i think that's dsl oh are these like the phone numbers for each one of these spots so someone could be like yeah reach me…

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