Buffalo Speedway

It starts in the upper class River Oaks neighborhood on the west side of Houston at an intersection with Westheimer Road.

[3] According to some, the "speedway" part of the name comes from a section of the road that was long and straight where it was possible to attain high speeds.

[5] Historian and retired land researcher Ann Quin Wilson says that a speedway existed near the site of today's Lamar High School, which would have been at the intersection of Buffalo Drive (now Allen Parkway) and where the Buffalo Speedway would later be built.

[citation needed] The race track indicated on the 1922 map attached was a horse racing track owned by Mitchell Louis Westheimer, a German immigrant and businessman who sold that portion of his farm for the construction of Lamar High School in 1937.

[citation needed] Buffalo Speedway is the title of a graphic novel about pizza delivery drivers in Houston.