I thought this must be a mistake, since the building did not even look close to how the Hollywood Park building looked in the photos I had of it. And one of them showed a building that looked very much like the one in the George Barris Buick photo, it was listed at 1940 Hollywood Park track in Lynwood California. While searching for something else I came across an website with dome old photo’s taken at some 40’s horse track races. The photo that started the quest for the identification of the location. The 1947 color photo of George Barris’s 1941 Buick photographed in front of the original Hollywood Park Turf Club building. So I searched further, in the beginning I was not even sure the building was in the Los Angeles area, George had made the trip to Sacramento already, could perhaps these photos had been taken on that trip? Two aerial photos showing the original building with the more horizontal feel on the top, and the after the 1949 fire rebuild version which had the same overall shapes, but less Art-Deco in design and taller overall. The search was on, the large round section and very horizontal shape of the windows did remind me about the horse track grand stand buildings as the one at Hollywood Park, but all the photos I was able to find at first showed the building after 1950, and it had a similar Basic shape but all the details were quite different. The new color photo showed a much larger portion of the building than any of the other photos I had seen so far. I had seen the building before in one other photo of the Buick and in a few other photos with other customs as well, but had never been able to find out what building or which location it was.
Zivot, Jesse Lopez and Gerald Fassett.Īfter seeing the color photo of George Barris’s 1941 Buick for the first time I was not only intrigued by the gorgeous Custom, but also with the Streamline Moderne building in the background. Hollywood Park was his first special location back in 1947.
George Barris was known for taking photos of Custom Cars in beautiful special locations.
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