Opening day June 10, 1938 at Inglewood Park, also known as Hollywood Park Racetrack, later sold and referred to as Betfair Hollywood Park. External view of grandstand, designed by racetrack architect Arthur Froehlich. Well dressed patrons entering the racetrack entrance. Large crowd gathered inside racetrack. Horses taking position and then racing.
American aviator Howard Hughes in Los Angeles, California. Howard Hughes with Mayor Frank L. Shaw and Governor Frank Merriam in an open car which drives on street in Los Angles, California. Crowd lining streets and cheering on Hughes after his successful around the world flight in just 91 hours.
U.S. Navy tanker loads oil at docks in Wilmington, California. Tanker loads oil at Union Oil Company in Wilmington, California. U.S. Navy sailors coupling feed line to tanker. Sailors work on tanker. U.S. Navy tanker loading oil at Shell Co. docks at Wilmington. Barrels of oil being loaded on tanker with Matson Liner in the background. Sailors around oil barrel on dock. Oil barrels being hoisted aboard ship. View from deck of tanker shows Shell Tank farm in the background and sailor checking tank in foreground.
College football game between the UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) team and the Washington Huskies in Los Angeles, California. The football game underway between the two teams. The UCLA team defeats the Washington Huskies 13-0 to win the game.
A review of research and development in guided missiles by the United States Air Force from 1919 to 1948. Interior of a steel mill shows workers performing various duties around an open furnace. The exhaust section of a JB-2, flames erupting from the same. A JB-2 launching. It taxis in a wooded area. A large explosion. The exhaust section of V-2 during launching. Failed test as a V-2 rocket streaks down towards the earth after a launch and slams into a wooded area, with a huge explosion resulting. The first guided missile robot torpedo aircraft crashes at Arcadia, Florida. First successful launching of the U.S. aerial guided missile. Exhaust section of JB-2 starting operation attached to a wing of a B-17. The B-17 launching. JB-2 in flight. PQ-8 target aircraft dives towards the slope of a mountain and explodes. An atomic bomb explosion. Atomic cloud formation rises up in the air from the Trinity test, the first atomic explosion, in New Mexico.
An ice covered slide at a beach in Venice, California. Girls wearing swim suits move down an ice covered slide at a beach in Vernice, California. Girls move down the slide and land amidst the surf at the beach.
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