Stanley Sayer and Hayes B. Eckert discuss gasoline prices, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Stanley Sayer and Hayes B. Eckert discuss gasoline prices, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

October 1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

After a meeting between the Southern California Petroleum Dealers Association and the Retail Petroleum Dealers it is established that gasoline prices are to be held at 9 1/2 cents.
Sayer writes as Eckert watches him.
Photograph appears with the article, "Gas Prices Hold Firm," Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct 1935: A12.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Three thousand Southland independent gasoline dealers were united for the first time in a single program in the prevailing price war at this conference attended by Hayes B. Eckert, left, general manager of the Retail Petroleum Dealers Association, and Stanley Sayer, president of the Southern California Ptroleum Dealers Association.
Handwritten on negative: Stanley Sayer Hayes B. Eckert
Text from negative sleeve: 2517 - Hayes B. Eckert (Gen Mgr Retail Petro Dealers) Stanley Sayer (Pres So Cal. Petroleum Dealer Assn) Gasoline Cut 10/1/35 [stamped:] Oct 23 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles

Names

Eckert, Hayes B.
Sayer, Stanley
Retail Petroleum Dealers
Southern California Petroleum Dealers Association

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image