Re: Vintage Packards on the Street Thread...

Posted by Packardbarry On 2020/8/10 8:40:39

With ref to the
"Early 20's custom Packard owned by Jesse Lasky in California"

About 1/4 the way downhttps://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/auto-racing-1894-1942.380814/page-380

Jesse Lasky was a Hollywood pioneer who founded the
Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company on December 22nd, 1913 and key founder of Paramount Pictures.https://www.historytoday.com/archive/hollywoods-first-major-film-company-created

In the book Whatever Happened to Hollywood?
By: Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Lasky Sr. son
He wrote:
the Rolls Royce roadster, maroon with rumble seat, crouched in the California garage beside Dad's Packard Special. That gray cigar shaped racing car https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora:153964