Peach Bowl race track

Although it seems almost impossible to imagine now, from 1949 until 1972 there was an auto racing track less than 3 miles northwest of the heart of downtown Atlanta. Located at the corner of Howell Mill Road and Brady Avenue near the current location of the Northside Tavern, the Peach Bowl was a popular fixture on the local racing scene during the years of its operation.

In addition to the midget car racing touted in the ad below, the Peach Bowl also hosted races featuring stock cars, modifieds, Grand National Sporstman cars, jalopies and Nascar Convertibles according to the experts over at the Georgia Racing History website, where they've got a couple of very informative pages about this long-gone race track. If you're interested, you should first check out their page on the general history of the track itself. In addition to that, they've also published a separate article featuring even more details about the track's history and some of the people who remember participating in events there.

In 1972, MARTA bought the property, tore down the race track and erected a bus repair facility on the site. GOOGLE Map