Which hotel hosted the 1947 meetings that led to NASCAR?

The Streamline Hotel hosted the 1947 meetings that led to the creation of NASCAR.

On December 14, 1947, Bill France Sr. and a group of stock-car drivers, officials and promoters gathered in the hotel’s rooftop Ebony Club bar in Daytona Beach, Florida. They were responding to problems that plagued early stock-car racing, including inconsistent rules and promoters who sometimes left races with the money before paying competitors.

The discussions continued for 69 days. The group initially formed the National Stock Car Racing Association, or NSCRA, on February 21, 1948. Because another organization already used that name, the new sanctioning body was renamed the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing—NASCAR.

The hotel is therefore often called the birthplace of NASCAR, but it was not NASCAR’s first office. Those offices were located nearby in the Selden Bank Building. The Streamline Hotel itself opened in the early 1940s and remains a landmark on Daytona Beach’s Atlantic Avenue, close to the historic beach-and-road-course racing scene that helped inspire the organization.