NORTHEASTERN SPEEDWAY

Courtesy of Cho Lee Harold "Hard Luck" Hanaford with the checkers at Waterford.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Unidentified driver wins one at Northeastern.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Future Hall-of-Famer Beaver Dragon wins one in his first late model - around 1964.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Northern Vermont's famed underdog, Chester T. Wood, from Orange, VT with his first "gorgeous" car.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Starter Archie Blackadar trophies local driver Skip Easter.	Courtesy of Glenn Andrews Mutt Dexter gets the Richard Rice Sportsmanship trophy from Mrs. R. Rice.	Ladabouche Photo A Gammell trophy from the track.
Courtesy of Cho Lee This 1965 photo shows the same Beaver Dragon car, a year later - winning at Waterford.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Bobby Hood	Cavalcade of Auto Racing Photo Bethlehem, NH's Ronnie Marvin, one of Northeast's bigger stars.	Fred Daniells' car, St. Johnsbury, VT Both Photos Courtesy of Mrs. Fred Daniels via Pete Racine	Courtesy of Cho Lee Paul Martell and Dwayne Remick [left] come together on the frontstretch at Waterford.	Gadapee Family Photo Glen Gadapee after a wreck. Archie Blackadar in the background.	Courtesy of Cho Lee John Gammell, A at T Road with a CJ Richards - owned 32.
Courtesy of Cho Lee Dwayne Remick, a local boy from St. Johnsbury.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Freddy Mills, Groveton, NH with his crew.	Courtesy of Cho Lee St. Johnsbury Center, Vermont's Johnny Gammell. More Gammell cars below.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Finding the Waterford pit entrance.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Starter Archie Blackadar hands off the checkers to winner Dwayne Remick.	Gadapee Family Photo Glen Gadapee and starter Bob Quinn.	Scott Haskell Photo The original 3J car that ran at N'eastern, as it sat at O'Connell's Auto Body.
Courtesy of Cho Lee Glen Gadapee in Victory Lane	Courtesy of Cho Lee Larry Granger, at Waterford. Libero Buzzi's 93 car.	Courtesy of Cho Lee A photo finish, with Russ Ingerson in the George Hay #68 - winning by a hair.	Courtesy of Cho Lee An unidentified coupe driver scores at Northeastern.	Courtesy of Ken Paulsen A hustling Archie awards the flag to the driver of the car 0.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Freddy Mills drove this odd - looking B Class car at Northeastern in 1963 or 1964.	Paul Belfeuille Photo Freddy Mills, in Victory Lane at Northeastern. That is an Ingerson seen in the background, directly above the roof of the car.
Courtesy of Cho Lee The late model division lines up for the feature in a night race at Waterford.	Courtesy of Cho Lee July 4th festivities at Northeast Speedway around 1960.	Courtesy of Cho Lee Paul Martell in a different ride than his later-to-be-familiar 93.	Courtesy of Cho Lee An unidentified Ford driver wins at Northeastern.	Courtesy of Cho Lee St. Johnsbury Center, Vermont's Johnny Gammell. The Charles Ely 88.	Courtesy of Glen Gadapee An early Glen Gadapee car, the 669.	Courtesy of Glen Gadapee An original track stock certificate belonging to Johnny Gammell.
Courtesy of Cho Lee St. Johnsbury Center, Vermont's Johnny Gammell. Possibly, the Gordon Fitzgerald 32 car.	Courtesy of Ken Paulsen Henry Montandon, The Frozen Logger Waits River, VT The Lloyd Hutchins 76	Courtesy of Ken Paulsen Johnny Gammell [rt] and others at a Northeastern banquet.	Cavalcade of Auto Racing Photo by Norman McIver. Ronnie Marvin was shown in Cavalcade of Auto Racing in the early '60's as N'Er'n representative at Trenton.	Courtesy of Ken Paulsen Johnny Gammell leads Dick Gammell and Ray Stygles at Northeastern.	Courtesy of Scott Haskell Northeastern regular Perley Densmore.	Courtesy of Scott Haskell Article about the opening of the track.
Courtesy of Paul Zampieri Unidentified car at Northeastern.	Courtesy of Scott Haskell Unidentified car 4 at Northeastern.	Courtesy of Scott Haskell Unidentified car 14 at Northeastern.	Courtesy of P.Zampieri Ted Rivers The Sad Sack 2.	Courtesy of Scott Haskell Harold Flanders at Northeastern.	Courtesy of P.Zampieri Rollo "Ripper" Lowe, shown here at Webster Flats, ended up running N'eastern for a brief spell.	Courtesy of P.Zampieri Ken Fenoff's car was numbered after a cigar brand.
Courtesy of Scott Haskell Glenn Andrews used this same car and crew at N'eastern: Bernard Perkins, Gene Remick, Glenn, and Harold Bates.	From the Northeastern Site Perley Densmore in one of his earlier cars - this might be at Lyndonville.	From the Northeastern Site Henry Whipple, father of writer and historian Phil.	From the Northeastern Site Perley Densmore, as he is today.	From the Northeastern Site Ned Lemieux	From the Northeastern Site Harold Flanders	From the Northeastern Site Pete Racine and another car get a bird's eye view of this roll.
From the Northeastern Site Colicchio [0] and others in a mixup.	From the Northeastern Site Chester T. Woods with a rarfe number change. He would have run this car at N'estern.	From the Northeastern Site A backstretch tangle that includes the Ely 88 of Gammell.	From the Northeastern Site A Thunder Road 1960 lineup that includes mostly cars from N'Eastern like the 16 of Andrews.	From the Northeastern Site Northeastern Victory Lane shot that includes Bob Doyle.	From the Northeastern Site A Thunder Road 1960 wreck of Satch Hunt's 46, a car from N'Eastern	From the Northeastern Site A N'Eastern tangle by the flagstand.
From the Northeastern Site Pete Racine passes on the inside.	From the Northeastern Site Dick Gammell did not have a ton of fun at N'Eastern with this car.	From the Northeastern Site Denny Dearborn or maybe Harold Hanford in trouble with the 7.	From the Northeastern Site 2 1959 views of N'Eastern when it was dirt.	From the Northeastern Site Colicchio steals one from Racine.	From the Northeastern Site Bobby Waugh [left] wins the Memorial Day race.	From the Northeastern Site A N'Eastern peek into the infield.
From the Northeastern Site Ken Robinson's sedan.	From the Northeastern Site Ken Robinson's B class car.	From the Northeastern Site Archie Beland	From the Northeastern Site Clyde Andrews	From the Northeastern Site Dwayne Remick, Ron Marvin, and Tony Colicchio.	From the Northeastern Site Pete Racine	From the Northeastern Site Satch Hunt
From the Northeastern Site Dick Johnston, with a partially - restored OK.	From the Northeastern Site Sonja Struthers, apparently a trophy girl.	From the Northeastern Site Perley Densmore, actually at Riverside in Groveton.

From the Thunder Road History Courtesy of John Casey and Others.
Part of the Thunder Road history program that discusses Northeastern as a predecessor.

For a really good closeup satellite photo of present day Northeastern Speedway, click on this link to Google Map.

This Terraserver shot is not as distinct, as the Google shot; but, it shows the track's remnants in the middle of the lower portion.

ACT Archives Courtesy of Cho Lee. McIver Photo
A marching band and color guard at what appears to be
opening ceremonies at the track.

Courtesy of Cho Lee
Crews scramble to untangle this pileup around 1961, during the track's glory days. The George Barber cars
of 47, Leland Ingerson and 46 Pappy Forsyth are visible, as are the George Hay 68 and a white coupe
whose number is obscured.

Courtesy of Gadapee Family
Glen Gadapee, in an early coupe of his, in a blanket finish with the George Hay 68 of Al Corey and another car.

From the Northeastern History Program
It is a wonder Mabel Densmore wasn't killed when she was dumped by Mrs. Jerry Bigelow in a powder puff race.

Courtesy of Ken Paulsen
Johnny Gammell, the day he led the 2007 walk around Northeastern prior to Paul Bellefeuille's restoring the grounds.

Courtesy of Glenn Andrews
Judging from the pace car, this is a 1963 lineup at Northeastern. The C6 belonged to CV Elms and could be Stub Fadden.

J. St. Louis Photo Turn 4	J. St. Louis Photo Coming out of 2	J. St. Louis Photo Looking at wall
J. St. Louis Photo Looking toward 2	J. St. Louis Photo Looking at wall from 1	J. St. Louis Photo Turn 3 banking
J. St. Louis Photo Looking into 2 from backstretch	J. St. Louis Photo Junk on the front stretch

Bill Ladabouche Photo Front wall and broken fence mounts	Bill Ladabouche Photo Front wall and wreckage of stands and tower	Bill Ladabouche Photo Backstretch from 2
Bill Ladabouche Photo Backstretch to 3	Bill Ladabouche Photo Out of 4, down the chute	Bill Ladabouche Photo From backstretch to front, across infield
Bill Ladabouche Photo Close up of track surface	Bill Ladabouche Photo A look perhaps at parking lot ?	Bill Ladabouche Photo Not sure of this view
	Bill Ladabouche Photo The backstretch

Paul Belfeuille Photo The uniform of a Northeastern cop.	Paul Belfeuille Photos One of Glen Gadapee's trophies.	Paul Belfeuille Photo Glenn and Helen Andrews 1960 Pts Champion	Paul Belfeuille Photo Paul, with a uniform worn by one of the sheriffs working at Northeastern.
Paul Belfeuille Photo The Gordon Fitzgerald 32 of John Gammell, on Ed Mackay's lawn - back in the day.	Paul Belfeuille Photo The Gordon Fitzgerald 32 of John Gammell, on Ed Mackay's lawn - back in the day.	Paul Belfeuille Photo Merle Fitzgerald & John Gammell, with the 32.	Paul Belfeuille Photo A typical Northeastern jacket patch.
Paul Belfeuille Photo At one of the track restoration meetings, a participant examines a model of a Northeastern car - likely Ely's 88.	Paul Belfeuille Photo A track trophy - probably of Glen Gadapee - at a restoration meeting.	Paul Belfeuille Photo Paul Bellefeuille, [foreground] the force behind the track watches Johnny Gammell examine albums.	Paul Belfeuille Photo The Gadapee trophy.
Phil Whipple Photo Glenn Andrews, at one of the meetings, with one of his many N'east'n trophies.	Paul Belfeuille Photo Glenn and Helen Andrews, at home.