Racing Down the Avenue of the Palms at PPIE in 1915

For those of you who like fast cars or slow palm trees, here is a video of the Vanderbilt cup race in 1915 at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Read about this race here and scan down to the bottom to see the route on the map. Part of the race was down the Avenue of the Palms. At 0:14, they are probably at the southeast corner of the Palace of Varied Industries! Those little buildings are refreshment kiosks. Here's a night-time photo of that corner.




And if you watched that Vanderbilt movie, this Charlie Chaplin / Mabel Normand movie might have come up as a suggested next movie. Mabel at the Wheel was made the year before Chaplin came to Niles. So if you need more racing cars, it's for you. There is a blog on the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup race in Santa Monica as well.