![A 1930s photo taken at Santa Anita Park, which opens its 75th season today. Built in the art deco style, the Santa Anita Race Track first opened on Christmas Day in 1934 with a crowd of 30,777. Read more history, via Santa Anita Park, to learn how this race track was built on the same land where Lucky Baldwin raced his horses. [Photo via the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Archive.]](http://jpg1.lapl.org/00081/00081729.jpg)
A 1930s photo taken at Santa Anita Park, which opens its 75th season today. Built in the art deco style, the Santa Anita Race Track first opened on Christmas Day in 1934 with a crowd of 30,777. Read more history, via Santa Anita Park, to learn how this race track was built on the same land where Lucky Baldwin raced his horses. [Photo via the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Archive.]
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