{"id":14788,"date":"2013-12-20T22:28:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T06:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14788"},"modified":"2013-12-20T22:28:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T06:28:55","slug":"hollywood-park-race-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/hollywood-park-race-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtain Call on Hollywood Park Race Track and 75 Sensational Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/holypak.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Photos top left clockwise:<\/strong><\/em> Terri Hatcher and daughter Emerson Rose enjoyed their annual Mother&#8217;s Day tradition of lunch and racing; Emilio Estevez met jockey Tyler Baze; Bo Derek was on hand to watch Zenyatta at the finish line; in 1989 the Salute to the Shoe (famed jockey Bill Shoemaker) featured Merv Griffin, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Gabor, and John Forsythe; legendary Seabiscuit took Inaugural Gold Cup\u00a0\u00a0in 1938; George Hamilton, Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Born out of the Golden Age of Hollywood and key players &#8212; Walt Disney, Jack L. Warner (Warner Brothers,) Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Sam Goldwyn, George Jessel, and some 600 celebrities, producers, directors and financiers&#8211; Hollywood Park Race Track opened on June 10, 1938 and is closing its doors tomorrow night after the final race on Dec. 22, 2013. \u00a0The 238-acre property will be transformed into up to 2,995 residential units, 500,000 SF of retail, 75,000 SF of office, hotel, Card Club, and 25 acres of parks in a master-planned community. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/hollywood-park.html\">Read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos top left clockwise: Terri Hatcher and daughter Emerson Rose enjoyed their annual Mother&#8217;s Day tradition of lunch and racing; Emilio Estevez met jockey Tyler Baze; Bo Derek was on hand to watch Zenyatta at the finish line; in 1989 the Salute to the Shoe (famed jockey Bill Shoemaker) featured Merv Griffin, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}