A crowd of shoppers at Merchants' Dollar Day in downtown, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: A crowd of shoppers at Merchants' Dollar Day in downtown, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: February 15, 1936
Date: 1936-02-15
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Merchants Will Repeat Dollar Day Tomorrow," Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb 1936: A2.
On Monday, all merchants who participated in the Dollar Day sale on Saturday will be putting the same items on sale so long as the quantities last.
An aerial shot of a bustling crowd of men and women walking the street. A store awning takes up the bottom left corner of the photograph. A man's shadow can be seen on the awning, possibly belonging to the photographer.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3699 - Dollar Day Crowd 2-15-36 [stamped:] Feb 18 1936
Handwritten on negative: Dollar Day Crowd 2-15-36

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Merchants' Dollar Day
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.045187
Latitude: -118.253654
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Automobiles--American--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Street railroads--California--Downtown Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Downtown Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12785
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmvjq
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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