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Actor Eddie Cantor and movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn, embroiled in legal suit against Warner Bros. Circa May, 1934.

Description:
Actor and singer Eddie Cantor, left, and movie producer and mogul Samuel Goldwyn, right. The photo was likely taken in conjunction with a suit brought by Goldwyn against Warner Bros. Pictures, in order to prevent the studio from using dance director and choreographer Busby Berkeley, until Berkeley completed a picture for Goldwyn starring Cantor. Berkeley was under contract to Warner Brothers, but the two studios had an agreement that he would work on two pictures per year for Goldwyn.Cantor testified for Goldwyn in the suit on May 4, 1934.
Date:
[circa May 4, 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Actor Eddie Cantor and movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn, embroiled in legal suit against Warner Bros. Circa May, 1934.

Adams Pharmacy ledger documenting the purchase of poison by Elmer M. Archer, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:
Ledger documenting the purchase of sodium arsenate for 10 cents by Elmer M. Archer at the Adams Pharmacy in Santa Monica on January 24, 1926. Archer purchased the poison under the name Joe Jacks. Archer was in love with the newlywed Olive Orr Brugen-Schmidt and tried to convince her to poison her new husband, W. H. Bowers.
Date:
March 1926
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Adams Pharmacy ledger documenting the purchase of poison by Elmer M. Archer, Los Angeles, 1926

AFL-CSU members during their strike against all Hollywood studios, Los Angeles, 1945

Description:
American Federation of Labor's Conference of Studio Unions members during their strike against all Hollywood studios. The CSU strike began in March 1945 and was around the six month mark when it turned violent on October 5, 1945, known as Hollywood Black Friday. National exposure of this violence forced negotiations between studios and the CSU. Negotiation ended the strike about a month later, but CSU didn't last much longer and was eventually disbanded and absorbed by rival union IATSE.
Date:
1945
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
AFL-CSU members during their strike against all Hollywood studios, Los Angeles, 1945

Albert Smith, Jerry Ramlow, and Barney Bernard with gambling equipment confiscated during a police raid on 1019 N. Doheny Rd., Los Angeles, January 1938

Description:
Albert Smith, Jerry Ramlow, and Barney Bernard with equipment confiscated from a police raid on the residence at 1019 North Doheny Road on the night of January 4, 1938. The house was apparently operating as a casino for two weeks before tuxedo-clad policemen infiltrated the party and confiscated gambling equipment, $1755 in cash, and arrested seven men. Almost a hundred others, including high profile film actors and producers, were found at the residence.
Date:
January 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Albert Smith, Jerry Ramlow, and Barney Bernard with gambling equipment confiscated during a police raid on 1019 N. Doheny Rd., Los Angeles, January 1938

Birthday/retirement party for William L. Brashear thrown by his co-workers at the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Description:
William L. Brashear receiving a gift from M. A. Nugent at his birthday/retirement party from the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. I. A. Cain squats to the left holding a birthday cake and a large crowd of railroad employees is gathered around the lounge chair Brashear is seated in.
Date:
[1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Birthday/retirement party for William L. Brashear thrown by his co-workers at the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Los Angeles, circa 1940

Boos Bros Cafeteria on the 300 block of S. Broadway, Los Angeles, circa 1929

Description:
View of businesses, pedestrians and cars on the 300 block of S. Broadway. Businesses include a Baker's $ Stores at 332 S. Broadway, the Boos Bros Cafeteria and other businesses. The movie playing at the Million Dollar Theater, visible across the street, is Sweetie with Nancy Carrol and Jack Oakie, which opened in 1929
Date:
[circa 1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Boos Bros Cafeteria on the 300 block of S. Broadway, Los Angeles, circa 1929

Boos Bros Cafeteria on the 300 block of S. Broadway, Los Angeles, circa 1929

Description:
View of businesses, pedestrians and cars on the 300 block of S. Broadway, facing towards 4th St. Decorative flags on cables hang above the street. Businesses include the Santa Barbara Hotel at 326 1/2, the Boos Bros Cafeteria, Baker $ Stores, Morton Stores, Barnes Music Co. and the Broadway Department Store and the corner of Broadway and 4th St. A cable car is visible on the street as well as a Calif. Co-operative Creamery Co. truck and an F. W. Hardin truck.
Date:
[circa 1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Boos Bros Cafeteria on the 300 block of S. Broadway, Los Angeles, circa 1929

Boos Bros Cafeteria on the 300 hundred block of W 5th St., Los Angeles, circa 1920-1929

Description:
View of businesses, cars and pedestrians on the north side of the 300 block of W 5th St. facing east towards the "B. B. Coffee Shop," "Benjamin Diamond Co." at 321 W 5th St., and "Boos Bros Cafeteria," with the "Title Guarantee Bldg." visible in the distance at the corner of 5th St. and Broadway St.
Date:
[circa 1920-1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Boos Bros Cafeteria on the 300 hundred block of W 5th St., Los Angeles, circa 1920-1929

Boos Bros Cafeteria on the 400 block of S. Hill St., Los Angeles, circa 1920-1929

Description:
View of businesses, cars and pedestrians on the east side of the 400 block of South Hill St. facing north. Businesses include the Louis Oreck Antique Jewelry store at 442, a shoe shine business, a barber shop, and Boos Bros Cafeteria; the John Luchenbach Building is in the far background on the left.
Date:
[1920-1929?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Boos Bros Cafeteria on the 400 block of S. Hill St., Los Angeles, circa 1920-1929

Brothers Benny and Tony Lucey Castellucci reunited after 32 years in Benny's Italian café, Los Angeles, February 28, 1940

Description:
Brothers and restaurateurs Benny and Anthony “Tony Lucey” Castellucci who were reunited after 32 years when Tony Lucey dropped in to Benny’s Italian café to check out his competition. The two men started talking and found out they were brothers who had been separated when they each left Italy to seek their fortunes in America in 1908 and 1913.
Date:
February 28, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Brothers Benny and Tony Lucey Castellucci reunited after 32 years in Benny's Italian café, Los Angeles, February 28, 1940

Buildings awaiting demolition near the Doheny Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, April 30, 1935, Helping Neighbor Bid Campus Good-by, Trojans Act as Movers, Grid Players and Co-eds Help Woman to Vacate Condemned Property. Trojan football players and campus co-eds gathered around to lend assistance as Mrs. Nancy Robbins moved her residence and soda fountain from a corner of the Doheny Memorial Library grounds at the University of Southern California.
Date:
1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Buildings awaiting demolition near the Doheny Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1935

Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien on the witness stand during the liquor license bribe trial, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:
Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien who was a witness at the liquor license bribe trial. O'Brien testified that she had paid money to the Board of Equalization in the hopes of having her liquor license reinstated, but never received the reinstated license. Defendants in the bribe trial included several high-ranking officials such as state board of equalization member William G. Bonelli and chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton.
Date:
March 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien on the witness stand during the liquor license bribe trial, Los Angeles, 1937

Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien on the witness stand during the liquor license bribe trial, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:
Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien who was a witness at the liquor license bribe trial. O'Brien testified that she had paid money to the Board of Equalization in the hopes of having her liquor license reinstated, but never received the reinstated license. Defendants in the bribe trial included several high-ranking officials such as state board of equalization member William G. Bonelli and chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton.
Date:
March 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien on the witness stand during the liquor license bribe trial, Los Angeles, 1937

Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien on the witness stand during the liquor license bribe trial, Los Angeles, 1937

Description:
Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien who was a witness at the liquor license bribe trial. O'Brien testified that she had paid money to the Board of Equalization in the hopes of having her liquor license reinstated, but never received the reinstated license. Defendants in the bribe trial included several high-ranking officials such as state board of equalization member William G. Bonelli and chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton.
Date:
March 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Cafe operator Agnes O'Brien on the witness stand during the liquor license bribe trial, Los Angeles, 1937

Charles L. Rawlins, attorney for the receiver and trustees of the Arizona Edison Company, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Photo related to November 1935 United States Senate's Justice Administration Committee on the controversies surrounding the bankruptcy of Fox West Coast Theaters. Charles L Rawlins was the attorney for the receiver and trustees of the Arizona Edison Company, which was involved in the case.
Date:
November 20, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Charles L. Rawlins, attorney for the receiver and trustees of the Arizona Edison Company, Los Angeles, 1935

Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton with attorney James Flanagan at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct. 1939 - May 1940

Description:
Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton (right) with attorney James Flanagan at the liquor license bribe trial. Templeton is charged with involvement in a liquor license pay-off scandal in which he allegedly conspired with at least six others to extort money from liquor retailers under threat of causing them to lose their liquor license
Date:
between October 24, 1939 and May 29, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Chief liquor control officer Merle Templeton with attorney James Flanagan at the liquor license bribe trial, Oct. 1939 - May 1940