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Original Ticket Offices (Administrative Building)

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Darlington Raceway History Tour! Inside Forgotten Details of NASCAR's Most Unique Track

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The presenter visits the original ticket offices, which are still used as administrative offices today. The old photographs show fans queuing up to buy tickets, while another photo reveals the former appearance of the facility with its original ticket windows. The office also houses a safe where the money from ticket sales was stored.

Goal: Explore the history and current use of the original ticket offices.

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here under his regime Tyler Tower was built, Pearson Tower was built. How old are those little uh suites out there? I'll show you one I know that's that's old. Those were built back in the early 2000s. But the one that's over there, that was rebuilt, that was rebuilt as a um that used to be where the old scoring stand was. Uh so that's where you had all the people who had the you know every again every car had to have a score and that's where it was built. Now eventually that original building is gone just like the first press box here was an open air press box. It was it was built out of wood. Had a race car go out the place one year and actually went into the press box and tore part of it down. Unfortunately, there was no press on that very end where he went over. Huh. But you can see you had a good you had a good angle right here to be able to look at the to look at the cars whenever they went by. Yeah, that uh observation deck looked like it's been there for a long time. It has been. That's our operations department right there. Um, one thing that, you know, this vintage racetrack has, it has a lot of character in it. You know, it used to be the tunnel that we're going through. There wasn't a tunnel here to to get RVs and stuff in. It used to be a crossover gate right there. U, so this road right over here

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