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Title: Century Drive-In, Inglewood, looking northwest
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1964
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Stiles O. Clements (architect) and Edward Huntsman-Trout (landscape architect) designed the 1938 Streamline Moderne style Hollywood Park, located at 1050 South Prairie Avenue on the northwest corner of Century Boulevard in Inglewood. A fire in 1949 completely destroyed the clubhouse and grandstands. Arthur Froelich designed the replacement structures from steel and concrete making it the most fire resistant track in the nation when it reopened in 1950. In 2009 the city proposed a redevelopment project that includes demolition of the Hollywood Park racetrack/grandstand.
Aerial view of Century Drive-In, located at 3560 W. Century Blvd. at Yukon Ave., in the city of Inglewood; view is looking northwest. There is a curved Cinerama screen in front of the regular screen. Also visible is Hollywood Park Race Track (top right), located at 1050 S. Prairie Ave. Club St. is bottom left to middle right; Yukon Ave. is middle left to mid-photo; Prairie Ave. is slightly horizontally at top; Century Blvd. is top left to middle right. Photograph dated May 1964.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;10 x 13 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00103977
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 609-30
CARL0005181843
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/5708
Subject: Century Drive-In (Inglewood, Calif.)
Betfair Hollywood Park (Inglewood, Calif.)
Racetracks (Horse racing)--California--Inglewood
Drive-in theaters--California--Inglewood
Dwellings--California--Inglewood
Streets--California--Inglewood
Automobiles--California--Inglewood
Apartments--California--Inglewood
Parking lots--California--Inglewood
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Lost architecture--California--Inglewood
Century Boulevard (Inglewood, Calif.)
Inglewood (Calif.)--Aerial views
Inglewood (Calif.)
Aerial photographs
Froehlich, Arthur

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