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City College Station
(Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA)
Artist: Eun Lee Cho
Title: Speed, Exhilaration & Determination
Media: Bronze - 2005
Eun Lee Cho was inspired to create the artwork after observing students using a popular mode of transportation as they passed through the campus. The life-size, semi-abstract figure on a bicycle is rendered in a loose, expressive style, reflecting the energy and dynamism of bicycle riders. Its exaggerated curves and gesture give an overall impression of speed, exhilaration and determination–thus the title of the artwork
RC Jones Photo.
Editors Note: After talking to the artist this afternoon she said many mentioned it was a motorcycle, and it is how the person perceives the art work... Wheels and Speed!

Lake Perris Speedway

Taken in February or March 1991, does this plot of ground look familiar to you? If not, here is the story. What you are seeing is the initial track cut for Lake Perris Speedway, which would run Thursday nights starting in 1991. The track lasted through the 1994 season. In 1995, a lightning sprint car racer named Jesse Dean built a quarter-mile dirt track on the same plot of land. One year after that in 1996, the Kazarian family got the lease, leveled the quarter-mile track, and built what has become one of the most famous dirt tracks in the country, Perris Auto Speedway. The Kazarians still promote the track today. The whole story took place on that same spot, but even before 1991, there was racing there. When the Farmer's Fair moved from Hemet to what is now the Lake Perris Fairgrounds in 1988 or 1989, promoter John Richardson promoted Speedway and 3/4 Midget races there during the fair. Ryan Evans won the first one. And if memory serves me correctly, Bob Basile's Sunnyside Promotions also promoted Demolition Derbys and a tractor pull (Richardson may also have promoted the tractor pull) during the early years before the race track was built.
From Scott Daloisio