A Glimpse of Golden Age Hollywood

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TCM's screening of "THE FIRST AUTO" last night reminded me of the Riverside International Raceway as Charles Emmett Mack is said to have been killed in an automobile accident enroute to a Riverside racetrack during filming of the 1927 movie.
I wondered if there was going to be expounding on the ironic incident, but Jacqueline Stewart only briefly mentioned the Mack death during her outro.
I wonder if the aforementioned Riverside racetrack was located on the land used for the establishment of the Riverside IR about thirty years later...

James Garner is seen with Stirling Moss at the Riverside International Raceway in 1970, Dargo:



Sorry for the more modern detour, GaryCooper. Here's steering the thread back to its proper period: