Chevrolet car, used as a getaway vehicle after three men robbed Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, 1926

Item Overview

Title

Chevrolet car, used as a getaway vehicle after three men robbed Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, 1926

Date Created

[circa September 21, 1926]

Date

1926-09-21

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

English

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

A Chevrolet car, picture taken from the front 3/4 view. The windshield is cracked with a big hole on the passenger side. It is on a dirt road. Two more cars are in the background along with some buildings. An partially obscured unidentified man stands in the foreground of the picture.
Three men robbed Pacific National Bank of $2500 on 108th Street and Broadway on September 20, 1926, then stole a getaway car. Two of the men were shot by the neighboring drugstore owner and the bank manager, and the robbers abandoned the car on 102nd and Denker Streets.
Related to "Bank Bandits Believed Shot," Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep 1926: A12.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: Stolen car used by bandits who held up Bank at 108th St. & Bdy
License plate of car: B52 033. CAL26.
Handwritten on negative sleeve: Pacific Nat'l Bank X

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Pacific National Bank (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

33.943780

Latitude

-118.284766

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Robberies--California--Los Angeles
Automobile theft--California--Los Angeles County
Banks--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--American--California--Los Angeles