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Johnnie Parsons accepts the winner's trophy from promoter Sam Nunis, Langhorne Speedway, 1949.
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Johnnie Parsons accepts the winner's trophy from promoter Sam Nunis, Langhorne Speedway

Credit: Courtesy of L Spencer Riggs, Langhorne! No Man's Land,info@pitstopbooks.com, photo courtesy of Audrey Hankinson Tiller Collection.

From the 1920s until it closed in 1971, Langhorne attracted many of the nation's best race car drivers. After beating the competition at the Langhorne 100-mile race in 1949, Johnny Parsons would win the Indianapolis 500 in 1950.

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