Former millionaire Clyde H. Melton works at Goodwill, Pasadena, 1936

Description: Clyde holds a teapot standing in front of shelves of Goodwill merchandise.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Onion King in Comeback," Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan 1936: A3.
At one time Clyde H. Melton of Devine, Texas, headed a $3,500,000 enterprise, but after the depression his business was wrecked and he was left a poor man. Working as an employee of Goodwill Industries, he is attempting to work his way back into economic independence.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3557 - CLYDE. H. MELTON Once The World's Bermuda Onion King In the Electric Section of Goodwill? now works there, lost fortune [stamped:] Feb 7 - 1936
Handwritten on negative: Clyde H Melton

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Goodwill Industries of America
Melton, Clyde Hawthorne, 1887-1948
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.145528
Latitude: -118.150872
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Working class--California--Pasadena
Business people--American--California--Pasadena

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12621
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmnw0
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