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Title: Culver City Speedway
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1925
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: Aerial view of the Los Angeles Speedway in Culver City, which was in existence as an auto racing venue from December 14, 1924, until March 6, 1927. Its 1.25-mile wood oval turns were banked 45 degrees. It was built by Jack Prince and Art Pillsbury. Red Cariens was fatally injured there on November 29, 1925. The site later became movie studios.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00058494
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
G-002-028.5 4x5; Culver City-Speedway.
CARL0000061656
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/105074
Subject: Los Angeles Speedway (Culver City, Calif.)
Racetracks (Automobile racing)--California--Culver City
Aerial photographs
Culver City (Calif.)
Culver City (Calif.)--Aerial views

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