Info
- 39532 Hudson Krohn Rd, Biloxi, MS
- Quarter Mile Drag Strip
- Track Width: 60ft
- Grandstand Seating Capacity Over 800
- First Event: Sep. 1st, 1957
- Last Event: July 1st, 1967
- Other Names - Gulf Coast Drag Strip ('57-'64)
Dragway Staff
Earl Nolan (Owner '57-'6?)
From Biloxi, MS
Harvey Walther (Owner '6?-'67)
From Gretna, LA
Bill Walther (Owner)
From Gretna, LA
Charles Meek (Promoter '63-'67)
From Pascagoula, MS
Ray Butterfield (Announcer)
From Biloxi, MS
Ken Thibodeaux (Flagman Early 60s)
From New Orleans, LA
Contributors
Bill Brumfield, Bill Shannon, Bret Kepner, Bubba Cummins, Charles Meek, Charlie Morrison, Claude Villar, Dale McMurtry, Dale Williams, Dennis Doubleday, Dewey Fairley, Don Prieto, Eddie Fairley, Glenn Cupit, Jerry Coludrovich, Jim Brindle, Jim Dupree, Joe Brister, John Abney, Ken Thibodeaux, Kenny Lochbaum, Larry Evans, Mike Scarborough, Mike Schrantz, Milton Castanedo, Peter Schultz, Ray Butterfield Jr., Reid Shannon, Richard Reed, Sol Stewart, Stephen Abshier
Story Of The Website
Putting it all together...
In 2006 I created this tribute website of Biloxi Dragway. I never attended an event at Biloxi, but am a big racing fan. The inspiration to create the website to what it is today was from around eleven photos our friend Mike showed me of the Biloxi Drag Strip. I spent a lot of hours on the website. Over time many people have emailed us photos and information. Bubba Cummins has sent us a many of picture to display. In Feb 2008 we were contacted by a group of racers called the Parkside Gang that consisted of great guys that raced raced at Biloxi. Milton Castanedo was the host of this reunion in Gulfport, MS. You could tell these men knew cars inside out. They showed us a true treasure of images of what Biloxi Dragway was about. Nearly 100 images I took with my camera of flyers and newsletters. Scanned nearly 100 pictures. In about two or three hours. It's taken a few years to get it all posted for the world to see and structure the website around these great images. I also went to work to track down the results for the website. With the results have been able to figure out the exact dates of many photos. It has taken time, work, and patience, but what has been put together is what I think is something rare for tribute websites and history of racing venues of the past. Learned a lot in the process! None of this would be what it is without people that care and thought something of this. Nearly 50 years later this place sill means something to the people that experienced it. If you go back to when I started this I really had no idea what it would turn into, proud what has been done so far with this project.
Biloxi Dragway had colorful history and also a different time for the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Please spread the word of this on going project. If you attended, know someone who attended, their stories, memories, and anything else related are welcomed so we'll be able to forever preserve this place in time the way it was.
Cory Evans
Feb 11, 2008 Reunion
Milton Castanedo
Parkside Gang