Spectators in the grandstand at the Santa Anita Handicap race, Arcadia, 1936

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Text from negative sleeve: Racing Santa Anita. $100,000 handicap. 2/28/36. 3054. 2-21-36, Handwritten on negative: Races 2-22-36, Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934., Spectators in the grandstand at Santa Anita Park. Four cameras, one with a flash bulb attached, are on a ledge in front of the fence., Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds., Text from newspaper caption: Nothing Like Getting Up In The Air For A Good View. You had to have a long neck to see everything at Santa Anita yesterday, particularly if you were jammed in with the throng standing on the terrace. One youthful rooter found a vantage point on the top of the fence and stuck it out for a long rime. Times photo by Bill Snyder. [stand alone photograph, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 1936: A10]