Stuff and Dottsie Crouch, Vernon Mendez, "Sunshine Sammy" and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Los Angeles, 1940s
Item Overview
- Title
- Stuff and Dottsie Crouch, Vernon Mendez, "Sunshine Sammy" and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Los Angeles, 1940s
- Date Created
- [1940s?]
- Date
- 1940/1949
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Notes
- Summary
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Julius Howard "Stuff" Crouch was a nightclub host in Los Angeles for many years, and friend of musicians such as Count Basie.
Eddie Anderson was best known for playing Rochester on the Jack Benny Program.
Erroll Louis Garner (1923–1977) some was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads.
Vernon Mendez was a self-proclaimed pimp.
Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison had a career as a child actor and was an original member of "Our Gang" (a.k.a. The Little Rascals). - Description
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Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison is seated on the floor to the far left. Behind him is Stuff Crouch. To the right of Stuff Crouch is his wife Dottsie. Seated in the center of the couch is Vernon Mendez. The woman in the hat is Mendez's girlfriend (name unknown). In the foreground (kneeling) is a man identified as "Soldier Boy", Stuff Crouch's cab driver. Erroll Garner is on the far right. Eddie "Rochester" Anderson is in the background, 2nd from the right. The other individuals in the photo are unidentified.
All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
- Black-and-white photographs
- Names
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Mendez, Vernon
Crouch, Stuff, 1900-1966
Garner, Erroll
Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977
Morrison, Sammy, 1912-1989
Crouch, Dottsie Bloodworth, 1921-1969 - Location
- California--Los Angeles
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- People
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African American jazz musicians--California--Los Angeles
African American actors--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
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Collection 1867 Box 3 Folder 3
YRLSC_gordonphotos_0484
484 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025pk1v
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted