DescriptionLarge, blank forms printed on heavy-weight salmon-colored card stock. The form has blank spaces to record up to 20 (maybe 40?) cars, drivers and times for the qualifying time trials. Subsequent events two through eight are given less space. At the top of the form is space to for the track record and a table of flag signals. Back of program show the double gate fold and ads for Norton's, Balaton Inn, Thomas Insurance, Coke/Coca-cola, Tara restaurant, Kist (Kastens) beverages, Shell Gas & Oil and Van Syckels Market. Airpark Speedway, located off the Blue Star Highway in Ganges, was the site of the 2nd annual Saugatuck Jazz Festival on August 2, 1960. According to http://waterwinterwonderland.com/autoracing.aspx?id=1657&Type=9 the banked, dirt oval track operated from 1953-1963. Posted comments include: 6/25/2018 - Craig Drooger I remember coming here as a young kid in the mid to late 50's. My father Gorden Drooger and Uncle Junior Terpstra raced here. My Grandmother owned the Motel/Restaurant called Glenwood just south of the track on Blue Star Highway. She told me she remembered a bunch of the drivers used to come in after they raced. One was Gorden Johncock who went on to win the Indy 500 twice, he was also good friends with my Dad. 5/1/2017 - Rod Mellon My Uncle Mike Mankin from Allegan raced a blue #51 there. He probably raced stock on a shoestring budget. My parents took a photo of me standing on his seat wearing his white helmet, looking out the window holding the steering wheel. I was hooked on racing at 3 yrs old. 1/16/2016 - Wes Stafford Drove my first sprint car here, even if it was a six-cylinder sled during intermission on a very muddy track. It was a start. 12/17/2004 - John Colvin The speedway was about 2 miles South of Douglas on the E. side of US31. It was a 3/8 dirt track with quite a bit of bank. It had Lights for night racing. It was a fast neat race track. Pits were outside the 1st turn. In the 50s they ran 3 classes of cars, Stocks, Modifides and Super Modifides. Some drivers names I recall are Glen Rocky, Jim Murphy, Junior Turpstra, Norm Nelson, Bob DePaw, The Lockwood bros., the Vilwalk bros., Dale Adams, The Covey bros., Ralph Baker, Chuck Grano, Chuck Neal, Gordon Vanderbeak, Butch Gould and lots more. The Track ran Friday nights, in the late 50s Hartford was re-built with a bank added to the track and lots of the cars started running there instead of Airpark. Outside of a music Concert I don't recall of any event that was held there after 1960. Thru the years it gradually turned into a Blueberry farm.