Young adults on spinning floor ride at Venice Beach fun house, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Young adults on spinning floor ride at Venice Beach fun house, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

February, 1936

Date

1936-02

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

A group of unidentified young adults are holding on to each other on a spinning floor ride. The man on the far left appears to be Hal Booth (Willis Harold Booth), fiance to Ann McNaghten.
Possibly related to the article "BEWILDERING MACHINERY OF MIRTH MIXES NEW AND JOLLY COMPLEXITIES," Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1936: D3.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: When Bob English and Jack Hyland invited a large party of friends to the Venice Fun House these honored guests were among the most blithe merrymakers: Hal Booth, Malcolm McNaghten, Mrs. McNaghten and Ann McNaghten. [Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1936: D3]
Text from negative sleeve: 3693 -- [stamped date illegible] / Ann McNaghten / Mrs. Malcolm McNaghten (Ma) / Mr. '' '' (Pa) / Hal Booth (fiance) / (Willis Harold Booth) / Feb 1936 / Party for to-be's at fun house

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Booth, Willis Harold, 1913-1986

Location

Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Social life and customs
Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

33.984378

Latitude

-118.473387

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Socialites--California--Los Angeles
Parties--California--Los Angeles