Santa Monica Road Races revival, three cars and crowd, Santa Monica, 1950
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds., Three 1910s-style cars, each with two men wearing helmets and goggles, with crowd on curb and in grandstand at right, palm trees in background, road in foreground, Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 25, 1950, Old-Time Cars to Revive Noted Santa Monica Race. Santa Monica’s famous road race for the Vanderbilt Cup will be revived Sunday, July 16, when 12 old-time race cars roar around a two-mile course … It will be the first time the event has been revived since the seven years from 1910 to 1916. …, Text from negative sleeve: 2983, #10 to 24, 6/6/50, Santa Monica Road Races 1911-14, Copies of originals, See other set of prints numbered from 25 but no negs