Tulsa Speedway News
Thunderbird Racing News
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Tulsa Speedway programs became a weekly after Dick Colvin took over the track in 1962.. This was a big departure from the preprinted programs that inserted standings each week. The Tulsa track was making $10,000.00 per year off the program while others were losing money each time they sold a program.
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Above are loose copies of the local speedway programs. On the left are the copies of Tulsa Speedway News and on the right are the copies of Muskogee Racing News, later known as the Thunderbird Racing News.
In the center are bound volumns of the racing programs for both Tulsa and Muskogee. These copies were given to Danley after each season by the printer of the programs, Mike Pickett. Mike owned the printing company and stock piled a few programs for the purpose of giving these as gifts to certain people , at the end of the season.
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| Danley's only son was around photography all his young life.That is Gary Clow on the left with his dad's 35 mm camera.
Gary's first picture with professional equipment was at the age of about nine years old. The picture on the right of Danley at the enlarger is the results of Gary's first attempt.
Gary's first job was with the Tulsa Tribune as a photographer. His first assigment was to shot a picture of a criminal who had just been given the death penalty........................Well, his first picture at the Trib was a front page picture.
No, Gary did not follow his dad in photography. He went into computers after college and started two computer companies.
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Yes, you might say that race programs edited by Danley were dual purpose publications
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