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Jeff, thanks for your comments. I love Mulholland "West" the most, just like you do. Faster, smoother, a longer drive, and for me close to home making it easy to ditch whomever.

I agree that the Dixie/Java/Sumatra area is unusual. Many racers dove up/down those streets evading. The cops probably were hip to what was happening and sometimes concentrated there.

In the research for the book, The Mulholland Experience I found that there were other groups of racers that preceded the MRA. One group in 1960 was using Dixie as a meeting place and used it to ditch black and whites. Some of these racers went on to become famous Race Car Drivers. So even before Grandstands was called the pits, racers used different areas of Mulholland as their ground.
Quite interesting!