Jerry Lee
06-03-2009, 10:42 AM
This Two Minutes features a 1997 phone interview with the golden throat of Englewood past Ed Fisher. Ed wheeled a Stocker at the track in the late '50's and early '60's until that one fateful night that track announcer Andy Anderson didn't show up........
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EF: "John Clark told the club 'You should get ol' Fisher to do that. He's got a lot of mouth!'."
JL: "So you stepped in and did it for years."
EF: "There were a lot of fun years there."
JL: "I remember your voice as a kid growing up at Englewood in the '60's, you made it seem like fun and games."
EF: "Things like the Figure 8's brought fun and games to the speedway. They were a brave lot of guys, and people were jamming the parking lots to see them. (laughs) In fact, I would be up in the tower and want to quit my job we were timing in so many Figure 8's!"
JL: "It was you who named those infamous lakes that formed in the infield out there."
EF: "That's right, Lake Codner was the big one and Lake Charleen was the little one in mockery of Lake Rhoda out at Lakeside. Y'know, Rich Codner used to like to make a big splash out in the lakes with an old junker that had a big question mark painted on it."
JL: "Toss out some names that have stuck with you over the years."
EF: "Junior Reeder! A name that will go on forever. Totally fearless and crazy Junior, no question about it. And then there was 'Fearless' Freddie Harding, Bobby Jackson, Skunkie, Fritz Wilson, Wayne Stallsworth, Joe Lehman. I once ran a grudge race with Joe Lehman in the Figure 8's. Jim Coffey was big as a bear."
JL: "Any events stand out in your mind?"
EF: "Cliff Hudson got married one year in the X at Englewood. That's the first time I ever announced a wedding. There was a guy named Jersey that brought a keg of ice cold beer to the pits every night at the races, and Darrell Smith had his share out there. There were fun times."
JL: "Let me hear some vintage Ed Fisher!"
EF: "You know there's three words that stay with me where ever I go, and this is years later, "WATCH THAT X!!!". It was the 'Wildest Show on Wheels'! Englewood Speedway!"
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EF: "John Clark told the club 'You should get ol' Fisher to do that. He's got a lot of mouth!'."
JL: "So you stepped in and did it for years."
EF: "There were a lot of fun years there."
JL: "I remember your voice as a kid growing up at Englewood in the '60's, you made it seem like fun and games."
EF: "Things like the Figure 8's brought fun and games to the speedway. They were a brave lot of guys, and people were jamming the parking lots to see them. (laughs) In fact, I would be up in the tower and want to quit my job we were timing in so many Figure 8's!"
JL: "It was you who named those infamous lakes that formed in the infield out there."
EF: "That's right, Lake Codner was the big one and Lake Charleen was the little one in mockery of Lake Rhoda out at Lakeside. Y'know, Rich Codner used to like to make a big splash out in the lakes with an old junker that had a big question mark painted on it."
JL: "Toss out some names that have stuck with you over the years."
EF: "Junior Reeder! A name that will go on forever. Totally fearless and crazy Junior, no question about it. And then there was 'Fearless' Freddie Harding, Bobby Jackson, Skunkie, Fritz Wilson, Wayne Stallsworth, Joe Lehman. I once ran a grudge race with Joe Lehman in the Figure 8's. Jim Coffey was big as a bear."
JL: "Any events stand out in your mind?"
EF: "Cliff Hudson got married one year in the X at Englewood. That's the first time I ever announced a wedding. There was a guy named Jersey that brought a keg of ice cold beer to the pits every night at the races, and Darrell Smith had his share out there. There were fun times."
JL: "Let me hear some vintage Ed Fisher!"
EF: "You know there's three words that stay with me where ever I go, and this is years later, "WATCH THAT X!!!". It was the 'Wildest Show on Wheels'! Englewood Speedway!"
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