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From the Dustbin of History
This poster blow-up of an archive photo — showing El Cerrito in 1934 with its famous (or infamous) dog-racing track — was found by peripatetic Patch in a discard pile at City Hall.
Relocating from one home to another means a chance to discard items no longer wanted.
When El Cerrito Patch visited the El Cerrito Historical Society's new quarters in the recently opened Shadi Historical Room at City Hall, volunteers were busy unpacking, sorting and making room for the materials the society had kept stored in a secure basement room at the El Cerrito Library.
On this discard pile was the accompanying poster-sized enlargement of a photo of a wilder El Cerrito in 1934, with its dog-racing track occupying what is now El Cerrito Plaza. The poster — a blow-up of the higher-resolution original in the society's archive — is blurry in the details, but the big picture provides a revealing peek at the past.
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