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Monday, August 22, 2005
1935: Pelham Manor Blocks Proposed Motorcycle Raceway
Some in the Village of Pelham Manor may recall efforts during the 1930s
to create a motorcycle raceway in the Village in an area near today's
Secor Lane. The development efforts were quickly squashed following a howl
of public protest. Perhaps most interestingly, the Village Board of
Trustees reacted to the proposal by banning all paying amusements which,
some said, would make it impossible for the Village ever to have a movie
theater, ball park or any other type of public entertainment.
The story, as told in an account published on September 24, 1935, appears
below:
"Pelham Manor Puts Ban On Paying
Amusements
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Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
PELHAM MANOR, N. Y., Sept. 23. - The village board of Pelham Manor
voted an amendment to the zoning laws tonight aimed to prohibit the
construction of a proposed motor cycle racing stadium, but at the same
time, according to real estate owners, apparently made it impossible for
the community ever to have a motion picture house, theatre, ball park or
any other type of public entertainment.
More than 100 persons attended the regular meeting of the board to express
their disapproval of the stadium and the board immediately passed the
amendment. It prohibits any public entertainment in the village for which
admission is charged. The land for the proposed stadium is owned by
members of the Secor family, descendants of Zenas Secor, builder of the
Civil War Monitor, who first purchased it."
Source: Pelham Manor Puts Ban On Paying Amusements, N.Y. Times,
Sep. 24, 1935, p. 4.
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