Names: Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Five construction workers finish base for an awning at the Santa Anita race track.
Date:: [circa November, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two workers in overalls paint the concrete wall of one of the entrances to the Santa Anita race track.
Date:: [circa November, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two welders on rafters during the final days of construction at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, ca. 1934
Date:: [circa November, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: An unidentified man stands in a tower adjacent to the race track. The sign next to him displays the date as "Jan. 2 1939"
Date:: January 2, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: January 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A view of palm trees in the infield, taken from the race track.
Date:: [circa November, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Date:: December 25, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: February 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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