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Exploring the Original Ticket Office

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Inside North Wilkesboro Speedway's ORIGINAL Buildings: Full History Tour Before The Renovation!

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Ronnie leads the tour to the original ticket office, which was historically a chicken coop. He points out the areas that were added later, including bigger ticket windows and additional office space for Annie, the wife of Bill France Sr., who sold tickets there on a dirt floor. He emphasizes that the existing block structure was the original chicken coop.

Goal: Examine the historic ticket office and its structural evolution.

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and uh there's pictures you know out there that's documented showing it they started selling tickets it was a dirt floor uh bill france senior's wife annie she come down and she sold tickets here on a dirt floor uh that's just something you've heard all your life and that block structure is was originally built on the chicken coop the original structure right here the length of it and this width right here was the original chicken coop wow they did not know that yes and then later later along they extended it up to here and what that extension entailed was just bigger ticket windows to sell tickets out of and just a little more office space for any sisters was that like i said this was the newer and when you get through this other door that's all the original in there a lot of the original stuff is there anything uh like you see there's winston on the door and stuff yeah nothing major in there hanging up no nothing nothing cool no artifacts nope all that stuff's gone there's paneling just bare walls cinder block center block walls are in there that the original place so you know just it starts there and a lot of history a lot of history that was one of the original that's one

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