After her father died, Everett sold the tracks to Charles Bludhorn, then chief executive of Gulf & Western Industries. Everett, whose father had owned two small horse tracks in the Chicago area. During this stretch run, Hollywood Park was dominated by Marjorie L.

managing the track as a paired-share with the real estate enterprise.īy 1984, revenues had reached $64.7 million, with net income of $8.3 million. in 1981, with Hollywood Park Operating Co. The original Hollywood Park Turf Club incorporated as Hollywood Park Realty Enterprises, Inc. After being used as a storage facility during World War II, the track reopened in 1945 and became one of the most popular tracks in the world, leading all U.S. Hollywood Park quickly became known as The Track of the Lakes and Flowers because of its landscaped infield.

Warner, of Warner Brothers, was the first chairman. Al Jolson and Raoul Walsh were on the original board of directors and Jack L. The Hollywood Turf Club was formed in 1938 with several legendary actors and Hollywood moviemakers among its original 600 shareholders, including Joan Blondell, Ronald Colman, Walt Disney, Bing Crosby, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, George Jessel, Ralph Bellamy, Wallace Beery, and Irene Dunne. But when attendance began declining in the early 1980s, Hollywood Park began to diversify, initially with card clubs and, in 1997, into full-service casinos with the acquisition of Boomtown, Inc.

For nearly half a century, Hollywood Park, and its precursor company, the Hollywood Turf Club, concentrated solely on running the Inglewood facility. is a gaming, sports, and entertainment company that owns and operates card clubs, casinos, and thoroughbred tracks, including the famous Hollywood Park race track in Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles. Hollywood Park's strategic plan is to diversity its gaming, sports and entertainment businesses through the development, acquisition, ownership and/or operation of casinos, race tracks and other gaming, sports and entertainment attractions.

SICs: 7948 Racing, Including Track Operation 7993 Coin Operated Amusement Devices Incorporated: 1981 as Hollywood Park Realty Enterprises, Inc.

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