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Aerial view looking west across Santa Anita Park from a position about Santa Anita Avenue just north of Huntington Drive. In the upper right portion of the photo can be seen the extensive earthwork done for the track Anita Baldwin and Joe Smoot planned to build. That vast area now is entirely built with homes and apartments and is called Santa Anita Village. Present-day Baldwin Avenue would follow the line shown by the Ranch Road bisecting the photo from right to left just east of the track abandoned by Anita Baldwin and Joe Smoot.

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Date
c.1934

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Date
c.1934
Subjects
Aerial Photo Collection
Aerial views
Santa Anita Park-1934-1942
Smoot Hole
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
977
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Anita Baldwin and Joe Smoot, developer of Hilejea Park, Florida, prepare to turn ceremonial spadeful of soil for their projected race track. Anita has white hat and dress; Smoot is in double breasted suit.

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Date
1932

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Date
1932
Subjects
Baldwin, Anita
Smoot, Joseph M
Smoot Hole
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
906
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Another view of "Smoot Hole" before cleaning up and just before subdividing for El Rancho Village. The name Smoot Hole came from aborted effort of Joe Smoot and Anita Baldwin to get race track built in about this location.

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Date
c.1938

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Date
c.1938
Subjects
Smoot Hole
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
376
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Northwest corner of the "Smoot Hole" and dump before clean-up began in 1938, just prior to the subdivision of El Rancho Village. This view was near street named Coronado.

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Date
c.1938

  1 image

Date
c.1938
Subjects
Smoot Hole
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
374
Collection
Photographs
Images
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The "Smoot Hole" and dump before cleaning began in 1938 just prior to subdivision of El Rancho Village.

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Date
c.1938

  1 image

Date
c.1938
Subjects
Smoot Hole
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
375
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail