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On August 8, 1960, three (possibly four) bystanders were injured during a drag race. The Navy had been under some pressure to crack down on the drag racing and shut down the airfield to drag racing after the incident. Car clubs lobbied the city for an official drag racing site but were denied as the
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on Sunday August 12. The news was also spread by the a DJ named Dick
Boynton on the local radio station. Two days later the police arrested a printer by the name of Herbert Sturdyvin, 20, on suspicion of conspiracy of printing the fliers that were used to organize the protest. He was released two
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Protest was organized by thousands of fliers that were spread around town at coffee shops, car clubs, movie theaters and other places where people would gather. These fliers stated that there would be a "mass protest meeting" on
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also pledged his support to getting local enthusiasts a place to race. Eventually, all of these pressures came together and two new Drag racing strips were opened. The San Diego
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clubs, but was unauthorized. The Navy and the police looked the other way because
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Raceway opened in 1964. San Diego closed down after 1968 and
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This led to an organized mass protest the night of August 20 and 21 at the intersection of El Cajon
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