Dick Russell signing the speeding ticket he received from police officer Dick Barlow during a planned race to demonstrate the importance of following traffic laws, Los Angeles, 1947

Title: Dick Russell signing the speeding ticket he received from police officer Dick Barlow during a planned race to demonstrate the importance of following traffic laws, Los Angeles, 1947
Date Created: April 1, 1947
Date: 1947-04-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Dick Russell signing the speeding ticket he received from police officer Dick Barlow during a planned race between an automobile and a bus. The race was part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until the officer intervened. Russell is holding the Dunce cap he was obliged to wear after the exercise.
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Richard Barlow Dick Russell

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Barlow, Dick
Russell, Dick
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Ticketing--California--Los Angeles
Government
Fools' caps
Transportation
Traffic regulations--California--Los Angeles
Legal
Police--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00280r9p
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