Max Luna pole vaulting, before leaving for the national Mexican track and field championships, Los Angeles, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Max Luna pole vaulting, before leaving for the national Mexican track and field championships, Los Angeles, 1933

Date Created

1933

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

View of Lincoln High School student Max Luna sailing over the bamboo bar during a pole vault. At this time Luna and cleared 11 ft. 6 in. (the current Mexican record was 11 ft. 4 in.).

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: They're not bothered by high altitude: Everything's on the uppity-up with these boys. On the left Alfred Castillo of Garfield High, snapped in the act of high jumping. Center photo shows Fernando Ramos, former Times Junior Pentathlon champion and Southern California prep broad jump king showing his spikes. On the right, Max Luna, Lincoln pole vaulter, reaching for the sky. Insets on the left, Ray Sanches, manager, and Art Flores, trainer. The three youths and three coaches leave Sunday for Tampico to compete in the Mexican national track and field championships [Los Angeles Times, 8/30/1933].
Handwritten on negative: Max Luna
Text from negative sleeve: Luna, Max, Track

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Vaulting--California--Los Angeles
Sports
Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles

Names

Luna, Max, 1915-1994

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image