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Originally Posted by Albany NY
Also, is it possible that the Olympic Village was a re-purposed racetrack? Otherwise, it seems a very odd design layout for a village.
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Actually, the 1932 Olympic Village was built entirely on undeveloped land, with little grading as possible, because it was meant to be temporary; they didn't want to create "scars" on the landscape. After the Olympics ended, the village was dismantled and no trace of it was left.
So no, there was no pre-existing racetrack in the Baldwin Hills. I wouldn't be surprised if the layout was in ovals, meant to be used as practice running tracks or whatever, though I know for the 1932 Olympics, a number of local high schools' athletic facilites were used for training, as well as the UCLA campus' athletic facilites, when the athletes arrived a number of weeks prior to the actual start of the Olympic Games.