{"id":5916,"date":"2025-03-29T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=5916"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T15:13:08","slug":"the-danbury-racers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/the-danbury-racers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Danbury Racers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-Danbury-Raceboats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-Danbury-Raceboats.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1106\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-Danbury-Raceboats.jpg 1106w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-Danbury-Raceboats-768x257.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-Danbury-Raceboats-897x300.jpg 897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1106px) 100vw, 1106px\" \/><\/a><br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-Danbury-Race-Boat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-Danbury-Race-Boat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-Danbury-Race-Boat.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-Danbury-Race-Boat-503x300.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neat <a href=\"https:\/\/acbs.org\/the-danbury-racer\/\">article<\/a> put out on the ACBS website<br \/>&#8220;The Great Danbury State Fair was established in 1869 in Danbury, Connecticut, and by the early 1900s it was the largest agricultural fair in New England. In 1949 the Great Danbury State Fair Grounds opened the nation\u2019s first landlocked, oval, boat-racing speedway\u2014the Aquaway\u2014to augment its successful stock-car racing program. This flooded racecourse, which was built on the fairgrounds\u2019 historic horseracing course, was approximately a quarter-mile long, 30-feet wide and three-feet deep, with wooden sides that leaked and constantly had to be refilled.&#8221;<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neat article put out on the ACBS website&#8220;The Great Danbury State Fair was established in 1869 in Danbury, Connecticut, and by the early 1900s it was the largest agricultural fair in New England. In 1949 the Great Danbury State Fair Grounds opened the nation\u2019s first landlocked, oval, boat-racing speedway\u2014the Aquaway\u2014to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5920,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions\/5920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}