Mayor Flynn's facial hair is under attack by sisters Rosanna and Leanna Grossnickle, San Fernando, 1936

Title: Mayor Flynn's facial hair is under attack by sisters Rosanna and Leanna Grossnickle, San Fernando, 1936
Date Created: June 4, 1936
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "San Fernando's Folk Pay Visit in Fiesta Togs," Los Angeles Times, 05 June 1936: A3.
A sneak preview of the fiesta of the 26th and 27th was given at the Times building yesterday, where hoards of high school students were brought to give a concert, the students wearing costumes and the events also attracting family groups and grammar school children in the evening
Smiles are all around as one of the sisters holds a large pair of scissors less than an inch from Mayor Flynn's face while the other holds a mirror for him to watch.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Shears were called into play yesterday when Rosanna Grossnickle, left, and her sister Leanna, candidates for queen of the annual San Fernando Fiesta, threatened to clip the mustache and sideburns Mayor Flynn of San Fernando is trying to grow for the occasion. They were guests at the Los Angeles Times open house to San Fernando visitors yesterday. The fiesta is to be held June 26 and 27.
Handwritten on negative: L2R Rosanna Grossnickle 6/4/36 Leanna Grossnickle J. Geo. Flynn, Mayor of San Fernando
Text from negative sleeve: 5609 - Rosanna Grossnickle Leanna Grossnickle J. Geo. Flynn San Fernando Day at Times 6/4/36 [stamped:] Jun 7 - 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Scissors and shears
Mayors--California--San Fernando
Costumes--American
Mustaches
Sisters--American--California--San Fernando
Names: Grossnickle, Leanna, 1920-1971
Flynn, J. Leo (James Leo), 1897-1970
Grossnickle, Rosanna, 1920-2012
Location: San Fernando (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.052862
Latitude: -118.245057
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_14329
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7wn7
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