By Spencer Bowman, Northwest Room Librarian From 1912 to 1922, Tacoma was home to a racetrack once considered among the best in the country. During those ten years, famous drivers such as “Terrible Tedy” Tetzlof, R.C. "Cliff" Durant, Roscoe Sarles, and the Chevrolet brothers—Gaston and Louis (yes, that Chevrolet)—raced high-powered, open-wheeled cars at speeds exceeding…

