Veterans of the American Legion City Hall Post 387 with Mayor Shaw outside City Hall, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Veterans of the American Legion City Hall Post 387 with Mayor Shaw outside City Hall, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

Aug 9, 1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Los Angeles Mayor Frank L. Shaw and World War veteran members of the American Legion City Hall Post No. 387, Clifford K. Steele, A. D. Endsley and city hall engineering department accountant Harry Whittington in front of City Hall before the members of the American Legion Post went to Fresno for a convention. The Summer of 1935 faced a heat wave in the San Joaquin Valley, due to which the veterans took their own water wagon. A mountain pump was rigged which was to be used as a shower bath. Photograph shows the wagon hitched to a car. Ross Olney stands next to the water pump. The wagon has a banner reading, "Showed Baths Given Here, And How," and the barrel of water has a sign reading, "A Los Angeles Rain Storm, The Climate of Los Angeles is Cool, Have Some,". The Wagon itself has a sign painted to the side reading, "Keep Cool with Los Angeles City Hall Post, A Los Angeles Rain Storm, our weather is unique, warm up with Fresno." C. K. Steele is standing in the back row, holding a small box reading, "Los Angeles City Hall Post No. 387, California." The veterans and the Mayor protect themselved from the water shower with umbrellas.
Refer to: Photograph published under caption, "Veterans Take Water Wagon to Fresno." Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 1935: 6.

Caption

Text on negative sleeve: 1584 - A. D. Endsley, Mayor Shaw, C. K. Steele, Harry Whittington; 8/9/35; In front of City Hall when the City Hall Post of the American Legion went to their convention at Fresno.
Handwritten on negative: Ross Olney; L to R - Under umbrellas, A. D. Endsley - Harry Whittington - Mayor Shaw - 8-9-35

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Subjects

Mayors--California--Los Angeles
City & town halls--California--Los Angeles
Veterans--American

Names

Endsley, Avery D., 1895-1974
American Legion City Hall Post 387
Steele, Clifford K., 1892-1955
Whittington, Harry Cameron, 1894-1959
Olney, Howard Russell "Ross", 1886-1975
Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.054055

Latitude

-118.243254

Resource type

still image