A shaky photograph of Vincent Loos standing over a table and helping to prepare barbecue at the Rubber Men's Picnic in Santa Monica Canyon. A table juts into the image from the right. Vincent Loos stands, leftof-center, to the left of the table's corner. He wears an apron and faces towards the right. Vincent hunches over a tray of meat that sits on the table. Cooking trays and utensils sit atop the table. Sacks, crates and pots sit on the ground beneath the table and next to Vincent. Another person stands behind and to the left of Vincent, along the left edge of the image and mostly out-of-frame. A tree branch hangs down from the upper left corner. A canyon wall stretches across the background on an angle towards the right.
Photograph of a handwritten sign on cloth stretched between 2 sticks standing in front of a tree at the Rubber Men's Picnic held in Santa Monica Canyon. The sign stands at center, it reads, "This is The House of Prestolite That Works By Day, goes Out At Night. iT starts You cussin give it a Rest. And work off your lights on Light Guy West." A tree stands directly behind the sign. It rises out of the ground at right and extends on an upward angle to the left and out-of-frame along the top edge. A man (partial view) sits in front of the tree and to the right of the sign along the right edge of the image. In the distance at left, a few men stand in a clearing, 2 of them are at a table. A cliff face rises behind them.
Photograph of Joe Pike climbing a pole while attending the Rubber Men's Picnic in Santa Monica Canyon. The pole rises, left-of-center, vertically through the image. Joe Pike holds onto the pole about midway up and looks to the camera. Tall trees stand behind him at right and a tree covered hillside stands in the far distance at left.
A blurry photograph of some Rubber Men's Picnic attendees sitting atop the water wagon in Santa Monica Canyon. The wagon sits in partial view in the near distance, right-of-center. It is viewed from the side and extends out-of-frame at right. Affixed to the side of the wagon is a sign that reads, "Water Wagon RUBBER MAN'S PICNIC. Woodill Auto Co. INC. 6th and Los Angeles Sts." A man stands on the ground to the left of the sign and looks to the camera. Three men sit atop the upper rail of the wagon. One man sits above and to the left of the sign and smokes a cigar. The other two sit to the right of the sign. The man to the immediate right of the sign looks to the camera and the man at far right looks off towards the right. Tall grasses stretch across the ground behind the wagon at left and trees occupy the rest of the background.
A blurry photograph of Roy Forsythe and Joe Pike standing with other Rubber Men's Picnic attendees as they gather around to look at something. Joe Pike stands at center and faces towards the camera. He wears a vest and casts his gaze downwards. Roy Forsythe stands second from left. He laughs while facing towards the right and looking in the same direction as Joe Pike. A man (partial view) stands along the left edge of the image with his back to the camera; he partially obscures Roy. Another man stands between and slightly behind Roy and Joe. Three other men stand huddled in the foreground at right. A man in a vest has his back to the camera. The man at right faces towards the left and a third man stands behind the two in front. Trees are visible in the distance behind the group of men.
