Hollywood Park

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Hollywood Park is shutting down this month after 75 years. Richard Warren, who has worked there since 1948, remembers when the stars would come out.

"I remember Fred Astaire, sitting in these boxes," he says. "Then, there'd be Lucy and Desi Arnaz and they'd be arguing about something and they'd be with Jimmy Durante and he'd be just sitting there, smoking a big cigar, and ignoring them."

The long goodbye for Hollywood Park, through knowing eyes

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Saturday will bring one more ripple to Betfair Hollywood Park's mostly quiet waters.