As you drive down South Atlantic Boulevard in Daytona you can see numerous things. Hotels that line the beach, Restaurants, and different kinds of shops including a NASCAR Store. One thing that certainly sticks out to a NASCAR Fan is the famous Streamline Hotel. It is the one place that is synonymous with NASCAR fans because of its rich history. This was the place where Bill France Sr. along with numerous drivers, officials, and promoters gathered in the Ebony Club's rooftop hotel bar on December 14, 1947. The meeting concerned various issues such as drivers failing to get paid due to promoters leaving races with the gate receipts before they ended, along with the lack of consistent rules. After 69 days of conversations and ideas, the meeting adjourned on February 21, 1948 with the formation of the National Stock Car Racing Association, but was later renamed to NASCAR after it turned out that there was another
sanctioning body by that name. In that building was where the sport we know and love today was
formated and built. Just 6 miles away from the Streamline Hotel is the high banks of the Daytona International Speedway. If you walk across the street and onto the famous Daytona Beach Board Walk there are plaques that state different moments that happened on that Beach with the 3.1 to 4.2 mile track where drivers like Red Byron, Marshall Teague (Fabulous Hudson Hornet), Herb Thomas, Lee Petty, among many other Hall Of Fame Bound drivers made their name. When you step on these sands you feel as if you are walking on hallowed ground. The sand is still compact where the cars went around after almost 58 years later. You see the people all around soaking up the sun or enjoying the beach and most of them don't understand why this beach is so special. You can tell the people like me who understand all of the things that make it special and you act as if you are walking on hallowed ground. Then you look and think back to the days The Fabulous Hudson Hornet raced on these sands. You think of the history but the number one thing that you think is...... This, This is where it All Began.(Koelle,2016)
As you drive down South Atlantic Boulevard in Daytona you can see numerous things. Hotels that line the beach, Restaurants, and different kinds of shops including a NASCAR Store. One thing that certainly sticks out to a NASCAR Fan is the famous Streamline Hotel. It is the one place that is synonymous with NASCAR fans because of its rich history. This was the place where Bill France Sr. along with numerous drivers, officials, and promoters gathered in the Ebony Club's rooftop hotel bar on December 14, 1947. The meeting concerned various issues such as drivers failing to get paid due to promoters leaving races with the gate receipts before they ended, along with the lack of consistent rules. After 69 days of conversations and ideas, the meeting adjourned on February 21, 1948 with the formation of the National Stock Car Racing Association, but was later renamed to NASCAR after it turned out that there was another
sanctioning body by that name. In that building was where the sport we know and love today was 
formated and built. Just 6 miles away from the Streamline Hotel is the high banks of the Daytona International Speedway. If you walk across the street and onto the famous Daytona Beach Board Walk there are plaques that state different moments that happened on that Beach with the 3.1 to 4.2 mile track where drivers like Red Byron, Marshall Teague (Fabulous Hudson Hornet), Herb Thomas, Lee Petty, among many other Hall Of Fame Bound drivers made their name. When you step on these sands you feel as if you are walking on hallowed ground. The sand is still compact where the cars went around after almost 58 years later. You see the people all around soaking up the sun or enjoying the beach and most of them don't understand why this beach is so special. You can tell the people like me who understand all of the things that make it special and you act as if you are walking on hallowed ground. Then you look and think back to the days The Fabulous Hudson Hornet raced on these sands. You think of the history but the number one thing that you think is...... This, This is where it All Began.(Koelle,2016)
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