{"id":227,"date":"2008-01-16T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T04:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2008-01-17T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T02:56:37","slug":"christmas-carnivals-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Carnivals past..?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=226\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-226\" title=\"THE Latrobe Wheel\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=226\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-226\" title=\"THE Latrobe Wheel\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/latrobe-track-1907.jpg\" alt=\"THE Latrobe Wheel\" height=\"774\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How fkn cool are these shots? I fished them out of some old issues of &#8216;<em>Tasmanian Mail&#8217;<\/em>. The above shots were taken at the 1907 Latrobe Wheel.. Hard packed clay track.. supposedly the best in the state at that time? And the shot below is of the 1908 Scottsdale Wheel!! This is the track my Grandmama&#8217;s cousin&#8217;s were racing on back in the 1940s.. (See my earlier <em>Old Bike&#8217;s<\/em>post) My Grandma can&#8217;t remember if this was a dirt or grass track and I can&#8217;t tell from the pic which it is either..  yeah, sorry about the picture quality eh.. Photocopying micro-film! Not ever going to be good!!<\/p>\n<p>Ah, these shots are getting me pumped for some B&#8217;n&#8217;C grass track racing!! hmmn.. another possible future event?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=228\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-228\" title=\"Scottsdale Wheel\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scottsdale-track-1919.jpg\" alt=\"Scottsdale Wheel\" height=\"170\" width=\"404\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?attachment_id=226\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-226\" title=\"THE Latrobe Wheel\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fkn cool are these shots? I fished them out of some old issues of &#8216;Tasmanian Mail&#8217;. The above shots were taken at the 1907 Latrobe Wheel.. Hard packed clay track.. supposedly the best in the state at that time? And the shot below is of the 1908 Scottsdale Wheel!! This is the track my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/?p=227\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Carnivals past..?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}