Latest / Sal on SR 167 Northbound: Tacoma to Renton
South One-Eightieth Street — Built in Twenty-Eight Days
Sal: Between South One-Eightieth Street and Interstate Four-Oh-Five. Sal: Near here, at Renton Junction, stood Longacres, the home of thoroughbred racing in Western Washington from 1933. Its site, a 107-acre dairy farm, was found by Warren Magnuson, then a state senator and later a United States senator, and the track's founder, Joseph Gottstein, gave him a small part of the property in thanks. The racetrack was completed in only 28 days by a crew of 3,000 working nonstop, in the middle of the Great Depression. Until 1971 it was the only place in Western Washington where gambling was legal…
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