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To: NormsRevenge
Why was the track named Sears Point? Is that geographical, or Sears Roebuck or what? I've been lost in google purgatory lookin...


351 posted on 06/26/2005 12:10:15 PM PDT by glock rocks (Get er done!)
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To: glock rocks

Not sure, I tried yahell too. I suspect your intuition i correct re: a landmark or such.

It's in the Valley of the Moon, it's a pretty cool area, but traffic is a bugger.


361 posted on 06/26/2005 12:15:09 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: glock rocks
It's geographical and historical. Highway 37 is called the Black Point cutoff. Why I don't know...
366 posted on 06/26/2005 12:16:42 PM PDT by tubebender (Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
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To: glock rocks
Why was the track named Sears Point? Is that geographical, or Sears Roebuck or what? I've been lost in google purgatory lookin...

Why Google when you can go to the track website? :-) Seems the land the track was built on, as long as well as a heap of land nearby, was settled by a guy named Franklin Sears.

369 posted on 06/26/2005 12:17:47 PM PDT by steveegg (Only to a MARXIST is a VOTE considered a POWER GRAB. (thanks Seaplaner))
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