Kaz Hirata standing outside his gas station with "No Gas" signs written in English and Chinese in Los Angeles' Chinatown, Calif., 1974

Item Overview

Title: Kaz Hirata standing outside his gas station with "No Gas" signs written in English and Chinese in Los Angeles' Chinatown, Calif., 1974
Photographer: Gaunt, Jack
Date Created: February 16, 1974
Date: 1974-02-16
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Caption: IN TWO LANGUAGES--Kaz Hirata, operator of a service station in Los Angeles' Chinatown, makes it doubly clear he is out of gas. The sign in Chinese at left gives same message as one at right.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 35 mm.
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Location: Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Business
Economy
Gasoline supply--California--Los Angeles County
Service stations--California--Los Angeles County
Energy Crisis, 1973-1974--United States
Multilingualism--California--Los Angeles County

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b715_274714-78
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002p67n
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