Pedal powered boat, Los Angeles Boat Show, Los Angeles, 1930

Item Overview

Title

Pedal powered boat, Los Angeles Boat Show, Los Angeles, 1930

Date Created

March 30, 1930

Date

1930-03-30

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Posters read: The Bike Boat, Ltd., New York; A sensation, the Bike Boat crossed the English Channel in 8 hours, sold by Bike Boat Ltd, General Motors Bldg., 1775 Broadway, N.Y., Edward Goral, Los Angeles; Europe’s Sea Going Bicycle for rivers, lakes, oceans, endorsed by leading physical culturists for health and reducing purposes. Unsubmersible, uncapsizable, ideal for life guards, water sports, nautical tours, hunting & fishing, going to and from yachts, hydroplanes, and floats. Bike Boat Ltd., General Motors Bldg., 1775 Broadway, NY.
Young woman in bathing suit, smiling and waving, riding pedal powered boat mounted on sawhorses, indoors on carpeted area with couch at right, stepstool at center, papered wall with posters and photographs in background, flags overhead
Related to the article, “First Los Angeles Boat Show Brings Tang of Seven Seas to Landsmen,” Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 1930: 8

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Boat show, March 1930

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Boat & ship industry--California--Los Angeles
Pedal-powered mechanisms