Northside - City of Riverside

Riverside Fairgrounds Race Track (c. 1922) from the Riverside Chamber of
Commerce Collection
The grounds are dotted with many utility poles, and the track is lined with mast
arms and glass globe lights, indicating that racing may have gone into the evening
hours. A car race was held that year, and the track, which appears to have been
bordered by a low, stone wall with piers, was also used for a parade that drew deep
rows of spectators.
Fremont Elementary School
In 1917, Fremont Elementary School (1925 Orange Street) was established for the
children of the Northside, set back far on a large lot between Orange and Main
Streets, just north of Oakley Avenue, or now, SR-60. One of the original buildings, a
two-wing classroom and auditorium, is reported to the only survivor of a 1949 fire
but was demolished in December 1967. Another building was added to the school
complex in 1936. Designed by architect G. Stanley Wilson in fireproof, reinforced
concrete construction, the four-classroom building is extant along Main Street, and
in 1969, the east and west concrete walls were opened, the wood floors were
replaced with concrete, and a masonry wall was added for its conversion into a
storm drain spillway to redirect floodwater from a devastating flood in the winter of
1968, which damaged several classrooms and temporarily relocated students to
nearby Calvary Temple Church on the southeast corner of Strong and Orange
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