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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arlington Park's operating methods are remarkable because they are unique. Its success is remarkable because it is nothing of the sort. A wave to reform Reform laws against gambling swept the U. S. in 1933. Gambling is now legal in 26 states and the renaissance of horse racing that started in 1932 is still booming. Since 1933 14 new tracks have opened and $3,000,000,000 have been wagered. As noteworthy as the success of Chicago's Arlington Park has been that of at least two other major U. S. establishments officially dedicated to improving...
...dentist parlors gave him the resources to buy into a San Francisco baseball club, later to join Cineman Hal Roach in putting $1,250,000 into a race track on the site of the late Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin's famed Santa Anita Rancho. Since Santa Anita Park opened on Christmas Day 1934, racing has become a major Hollywood hobby...
Unlike Californians, New Englanders are traditionally hard-headed and closefisted. That generations of economic inhibitions have turned them at last into a race of spendthrifts is the conclusion implicit in the way they are currently patronizing New England's four new race tracks, Rockingham Park, Agawam, Suffolk Downs and Narragansett Park...
...shares, for which the offering price is $8.75 per share. Appropriately, the stock was being sold last week by August Belmont & Co., founded in 1837 by the same precocious young German who became President of The Jockey Club, gave his name to New York's Belmont Park...
...beer concession at the end of a Manhattan streetcar line in the early 1900's when trolley riding was a regular holiday sport. There they were discovered by the late Marcus Loew, who knew smart showmen when he saw them. The theatre man helped them develop Palisades Park across the Hudson River from Manhattan, which they still own, gave them good steers on other amusement investments. Joe Schenck later went to Holly wood where he married Norma Talmadge and headed United Artists for years. Nick Schenck stuck by Loew's, taking over when the founder died...