![]() ![]() to 4 p.m., is expected to draw a large nostalgia-hungry crowd eager to pick up a memento or two from the venerable racetrack’s rich history before it makes way for subdivisions and streets in a long-delayed redevelopment. “All of the good merchandise - the good furniture, the good paintings, the good memorabilia - has been moved to Santa Anita and to other racetracks and what they have here is the dregs,” groused transplanted New Yorker Antonio Vibrillo, now a Tijuana-based antique dealer and restaurateur. Jack Liebau put it - felt to some like vultures descending on the meager remnants of a corpse. The first of a planned two-day auction consisted largely of miscellaneous surplus equipment at the 75-year-old Southern California landmark that closed last month - the “nonsexy stuff’ as track President F. Inglewood > The quick-fire patter of an auctioneer reverberated through Hollywood Park’s largely empty, cavernous grandstand Friday hawking tillers and trucks, stainless-steel tables, saws and, yes, even kitchen sinks. ![]()
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