Three women at the Best Food display at the Food and Household Show, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Three women at the Best Food display at the Food and Household Show, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

November 3, 1935

Date

1935-11-03

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Three women at the Best Food display at the Food and Household Show. Two of the women stand behind the counter. One holds a box of Nucoa oleomargarine. Signs on the display read, "The Best Foods Inc. New York. Chicago. San Francisco. New one pound net weight Nucoa oleomargarine" and "The all purpose product, an ideal spread, perfect shortening, excellent for frying." Napkins, a fruit basket, and glass jars sit on the counter. The Clorox display is at the left with the slogan, "Clorox does the job you dread" at the top. The show was held at the Ambassador Auditorium, which was part of the Ambassador Hotel.
The Ambassador Auditorium was a convention center located on the grounds of the Ambassador Hotel.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2748- Food Show 11-3-35 [Stamped:] Nov 11 1935
Handwritten on negative: Food Show 11-3-35

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Best Foods, Inc.
Ambassador Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Southern California Retail Grocers Association

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.060759

Latitude

-118.297042

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Exhibitions--California--Los Angeles
Food industry--California--Los Angeles