Santa Anita Racetrack, 1930s

Santa Anita, 1935.  

1939, ^ - View of the Santa Anita Racetrack paddock (foreground) and a packed parking lot (background). Large crowds of people can be seen walking across the pathways surrounding the paddock, as well as sitting on benches along the main entrance. The paddock area is where horses are 'assembled', saddled, and mounted before a race.

1934, ^#^^ – View of a filled-to-capacity parking lot on Opening Day at Santa Anita Racetrack, December 25, 1934.

2006, *^ - View showing the Art Deco entrance to Santa Anita's grandstands.  Photo by Ellen Levy Finch.  

1953, race track traffic at Huntington Drive and Baldwin in Arcadia at the southwest corner of the Santa Anita Mall.  I thought I should add this one precisely because it is such an iconic scene of the area and of those days for anyone heading to the track.  

Bass Lake, 1962

During one of our summer pilgrimages to Bass Lake, California, suffice it to say that Chuck's athletic ability afforded him a rescue of a family member.  As an aside, Bass Lake forms one of the earliest memories of my life.  I was five and was walking along a paved and winding utility road of a campground with my left hand clutched in my Dad's right hand.  This was our campsite in 1962.  Funny to see nobody in this picture except for our gear and Dad's station wagon.