Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Edward T. Foley, born in 1887 in St. Cloud, Minnesota, was a prominent businessman and agriculture advocate in Los Angeles. He was chairman of the board of Los Angeles Turf Club. He was a benefactor of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and the Edward T. Foley Center on that campus is named in his honor.; Santa Anita Racetrack, located at 285 W. Huntington Drive, is the oldest racetrack in Southern California. The 'first' Santa Anita Racetrack was built on Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin's immense estate of "Rancho Santa Anita" and opened on December 7, 1907, but closed just two years later when horse racing was banned in California. In 1933, Hollywood director Hal Roach and San Francisco dentist Dr. Charles Strub formed the Los Angeles Turf Club and raised funds to build a new track. Designed in an Art Deco style by Gordon B. Kaufman, the "new" Santa Anita Park opened December 25, 1934. In 1942, racing at Santa Anita was suspended and Santa Anita was used as a Japanese American internment center from 1942-1944. The park is one of eleven detention camps included on California Historic Landmark #934. A downhill turf course was added in 1953 and in the 1960s, major renovations included a much-expanded grandstand as well as additional seating. In 1974 the Westfield Santa Anita Mall was built on the site of the old barns and training track. In 2007 the park added a synthetic "cushion" track to the existing turf course. The Park contains 61 barns, which house more than 2,000 horses, and an equine hospital. Photograph caption dated February 24, 1962 reads "Greeting the distinguished guests were (left to right) Neil S. McCarthy, Mrs. Edward Foley, Mrs. Robert Strub, Turf Club chairman, Edward Foley and president Robert Strub." The group is dressed in formal attire.
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Foley, Edward T Foley, Edward T.--Family Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, Calif.) Women--California--Arcadia Men--California--Arcadia Couples--California--Arcadia Racetracks (Horse racing)--California--Arcadia Arcadia (Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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