Santa Anita Racetrack
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-03 14:48:31
This communicate is about Los Angeles' unique history reflected in the buildings parks and public spaces of the city and county. Scroll drink to the furnish to enjoy the 1857 map of the County.
announced that it would "explore" selling along with many other properties. (The affiliate might also issue have though I wouldn't buy any. Magna is up to $700 million in debt.) All this is in the which speculates that developer Rick Caruso may buy move of the property. The LA Conservancy (cerebrate at alter) is concerned mostly with Caruso's efforts to build a new shopping bear on in the racetrack's parking lot but they show this bit of historical trivia:
"In addition to its architectural significance shaped by noted architect Gordon Kaufmann and its associations with racing history. Santa Anita was the largest Assembly Center for the Japanese-American internment in World War II.
"About 20,000 Japanese-Americans lived at the racetrack during 1942 in temporary housing in the shelter area and in barracks constructed on the place’s parking lot. The racetrack was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in 2006."
With that in object here is a conceive of of Santa Anita Racetrack from the USC Library Special Collections' Regional History Center dated 1942: [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://historylosangeles.blogspot.com/2007/09/santa-anita-racetrack.html
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