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05/04/11 Silver Dollar City, 399 Silver Dollar City Parkway, 800-831-4386; www.silverdollarcity.com: Bluegrass & BBQ Festival with Rhonda Vincent, The Grascals, The Chapmans, Midnight Flight, Brightwater Junction, The Farnum Family, The Hillbenders, Missouri Boatride, Lonesome Road and many more, May 12-30. One-day ticket prices (tax not included): $55; $45 ages 4-11; $53 ages ...
04/09/11 With the height of the tourist season still months away, early indicators often set the stage for the year, say Branson, Missouri tourism officials, who are optimistic based on attendance numbers at top attractions like Silver Dollar City. ?
04/01/11 The Wells Fargo/Riebes Auto Parts/Hoosier Tire/Coors Light/Pepsi Friday night point championship season begins tonight at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico.
03/11/11 It's old home week for Bryan Clauson. The 21-year-old sprint car driver has made the long drive from his Noblesville, Ind., home to race tonight at Chico's Silver Dollar Speedway in the inaugural John Padjen Classic as part of the season-opening United States Auto Club Western Classic Racing Series. He'll also race on the same track in the USAC Midget event.
11/26/10 BRANSON, Mo. (AP) - Lightning hit a guard shack at the Silver Dollar City theme park in southwest Missouri, sparking a fire that could be seen for miles.
11/22/10 A fallen Caltrans worker will be remembered in a special ceremony. A memorial service for Gary Smith will be held November 23rd at 11am at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico.
10/12/10 The co-founders of Silver Dollar City will be at Borders in Springfield Saturday to sign copies of the book "50 Years of Making Memories."
09/13/10 Concord, NC-September 13, 2010- A golden triumph: Jason Meyers had been trying for 15 years to win the Gold Cup Race of Champions at Silver Dollar Speedway in his home state of California and had come close a couple of times to accomplishing that in the last few years, including leading a majority of the laps in 2008 only to get tangled up with a lapped car.
09/12/10 Concord, NC-September 12, 2010- Two points is all that separates Joey Saldana and Jason Meyers at the top of the World of Outlaws championship standings following the 57th Annual Gold Cup Race of Champions at Silver Dollar Speedway in California this past weekend.
09/12/10 Chico, CA-September 11, 2010- Growing up in California, the Gold Cup Race of Champions has always been a special event for Jason Meyers and one that he has wanted to win since the first time he climbed into a sprint car in 1996, the same year he raced in the legendary classic at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico for the first time.
09/11/10 Chico, CA-September 10, 2010- Donny Schatz has experienced the highest of highs during the Gold Cup Race of Champion at Silver Dollar Speedway in California, winning the famed event in 2004 and the lowest of lows, enduring a frightening wreck and subsequent fire at the high-banked ?-mile bullring in 2006. He took a big step in putting himself in a position to contend for his second Gold Cup on ...
09/11/10 When Jason Meyers and his Elite Racing team got back to their Californian roots on Thursday night at Silver Dollar Speedway in the first night of the Gold Cup Race of Champions, they took advantage of every opportunity they got on track.
09/10/10 Chico, CA-September 9, 2010- Sammy Swindell won the Gold Cup Race of Champions at Silver Dollar Speedway for the first time in 1981 and has been trying to win the famed event ever since.
09/08/10 Chico, CA-September 7, 2010- Prior to heading to Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, California for the 57th Annual Gold Cup Race of Champions, September 9-11, each of the 15 full-time World of Outlaws drivers shared their thoughts on the famed event which will again pay $50,000 to win this season.
09/02/10 The log and corrugated metal building looks like something from rural New Mexico or Colorado, or perhaps a setting in Silver Dollar City, albeit on the gritty side.
08/11/10 The 2010 Feather Falls Casino championship series is winding down at Silver Dollar Speedway and this Friday night is Kid's Night.
08/09/10 Bowers and Merena Auctions, one of the world's pre-eminent numismatic auctioneers, hosted its Boston Rarities Sale on Saturday, Aug. 7 at Park Plaza Hotel and Towers in Boston, Mass., where the featured coin, a rare 1794 Silver Dollar, was sold for $1,207,500.
08/05/10 Ben Albert Parnell Jr., an influential local banker who lobbied for construction of Table Rock Dam and made the first loan to Silver Dollar City, died Monday at age 91 after a long illness.
07/27/10 Just hours after a wildfire destroyed the Silver Dollar Cafe last August, owners Rick and Martha Lounsbury had little doubt about what to do next.
07/26/10 Martha Loundsbury, one of the owners of the Silver Dollar Cafe, nails a piece of trim to a table while Jose Pena, left, holds it up July 16, 2010. The restaurant, which sits at the intersection of State Route 24 and Highway 241 will reopen soon after burning down last August.
07/05/10 Elk Grove's Kyle Larson started on the pole and went on to win the 22-car feature race in the Golden State Challenge-King of California sprint car series Saturday night at Silver Dollar Speedway. |