Mayor Frank L. Shaw speaks at Navy Day celebration on City Hall steps, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Mayor Frank L. Shaw speaks at Navy Day celebration on City Hall steps, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: October 27, 1935
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw speaks at podium on City Hall (200 N Spring Street) steps to audience regarding importance of American naval forces on Navy Day, October 27th, a day which commemorated the establishment of the American Navy in 1775. (Navy Day is no longer celebrated as it was absorbed into Armed Forces Day.) Naval officers sit behind Shaw as he makes his speech. The columns and arches of City Hall can be seen.The 2000 spectators listened not only to notable speeches extolling the navy at City Hall, but also witnessed a band concert and the aerial feats of naval airplanes flying overhead. Commemorations also occured in Los Angeles Harbor, Long Beach Naval Reserve Airport, and elsewhere in the Southland.
Related to the article, "All Southland Joins Navy Day Celebration: America's Sea Force Needs Stressed in Program on City Hall Steps; Fleet Holds Open House" Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 1935
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Mayor Frank L. Shaw, 10-28-35
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2620-- Mayor Frank L. Shaw, Judge Marshall McComb, Admiral W.T. Cluverius, Donald W. Douglas, Navy Day Celebration on steps of City Hall, 10-28-35, [STAMPED:] OCT 29 1935

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Military officers--American--California--Los Angeles
Armed Forces Day--United States
Commemorations--California--Los Angeles
Celebrations--California--Los Angeles
Names: United States. Navy
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.0536
Latitude: -118.243
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_9127
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dh4kh
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Rights Country: US
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