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Description:: The "Enchanted Lands" float features a large floral replica of the California Building (a Spanish Colonial building designed for the by architect Bertram Goodhue for the 1915-1917 Panama–California Exposition held in San Diego to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal) with a bell tower and dome reproduced with yellow, white and bronze chrysanthemums. A sign on the side of the float reads "San Diego, World Exposition City, 1935." On the visible corners of the float are float riders in costume with decorations featuring (L to R) a Spanish-American mission, a Chinese bridge, and a South Seas palm. The Goodhue Flagpole at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. is visible behind the float.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to the article, "Biltmore Chain Enters Arizona: Phoenix Winter Resort Will Extend System Six-Hundred-Acre," Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 1927: Pg 5.
Date:: [November, 1927?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a brick commercial building that lost most of its facade during the Long Beach earthquake. The sidewalk in front of the building is covered with brick rubble, one automobile is parked in front and 4 men are walking in the street in front of the building. Two cars are parked beyond a doorway on the right side of the building and a man stands next to one of the cars. A hand-rendered sign in front of the building read: "Open Now For Business - Side Entrance. Notice - Same Old Prices. No Advances. Entrance on Side."s
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Family tree for the wealthy Wendel family of New York. The last of the direct descendants, Ella Wendel, died in 1931. She left her multi-million-dollar estate to several charities. In the wake of her death, 2303 people from across the country filed claims challenging her will. Among them were Anna Wendel of Los Angeles and her children, Frederick Wendel, Helen Wendel Hannah and Lorene Wendel Johnson.
Date:: April 22, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Men gathered near trucks and brick rubble piles between trucks and next to building that lost its facade during the Long Beach earthquake. The sing on one truck reads "Owl Truck and Materials Co."
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dr. Thomas F. Madden standing in front of a Lions International banner, possibly for the Los Angeles club. This photograph may have been taken when Dr. Madden was Fourth District governor of Lions International between 1934-1935.
Date:: [between 1934-1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a crowd watching a man and a motorcycle on a raised wooden stage. A sign behind the man with the motorcycle reads in English, “MOTOR DROME America’s Greatest DARE DEVILS offer a new sensation in TRICK and ACROBATIC RIDING with MOTORCYCLES and AUTOS RISKING THEIR LIVES DAILY FOR NEW THRILLS AT 60 MILES PER HOUSE ON THESE STRAIGHT…” The rest of the sign is covered by the motorcycle.
Date:: September 14, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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