[Summit] Who remembers the Cyclodrome?

[Jonathan Howard]

Leah Nahmias, one of my wife's students at Brown, has asked us to pass on this request for neighborhood memories of the former Cyclodrome which occupied the now-forlorn Shaws Plaza. See Leah's request below.

If you know neighborhood elders not on this list, please ask them what they recall. Also, please share your recollections via this list as well as with Leah directly as I'm sure it would be interesting to everyone. If you didn't know that Summit once hosted professional cycling, minor league basketball and National Football League pro football (we coulda had Brady!), check it out at http://www.artinruins.com/arch/?id=historical&pr=cyclodome <http://www.artinruins.com/arch/?id=historical&pr=cyclodome>

Thanks! Jon Howard


For a graduate course in historic preservation at
Brown, I am researching the Cycledrome (Cyclodrome)
that used to stand off of North Main Street in
Providence, near the Pawtucket line.  The structure
stood from 1925 to 1937, when it was used as a bicycle
track and football stadium for the Providence Steam
Roller NFL team.  After the team folded in 1932, the
track was still used for foot and bike races.  It was
finally torn down in 1937 to make way for a drive-in
movie theater.

If anyone knows someone who remembers the Cycledrome
and can help describe the structure or the atmosphere
of people who used it; or alternatively can remember
attending movies at the drive-in theater that replaced
it, please contact me: leah_nahmias at yahoo.com.

-- 
Jonathan W. Howard
Cause & Effect, Inc.
Helping nonprofits create community change
178 Ninth Street, Providence, RI 02906
401.331.2272
jon at ceffect.com