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Chamber of Commerce ladies chastising Dick Russell for speeding ticket, Los Angeles, 1947

Description:
Chamber of Commerce ladies chastising Dick Russell for the speeding ticket he received from motorcycle 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.
Date:
April 1, 1947
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Chamber of Commerce ladies chastising Dick Russell for speeding ticket, Los Angeles, 1947

Chalk writing in front of a street shrine for longshoreman Norman "Big Bill" Gregg, San Pedro, 1937

Description:
Chalk writing in front of a street shrine constructed for longshoreman Norman Gregg, who was known as "Big Bill." Gregg was shot by Patrolman W.H. Redding, and his death created an uproar amongst longshoremen. Traffic was blocked by demonstrations, and the shrine was constructed around the scene of the shooting.
Date:
[circa May 29, 1937]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Chalk writing in front of a street shrine for longshoreman Norman "Big Bill" Gregg, San Pedro, 1937

Ceremonial setting of a bronze medallion at the dedication of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, 1929

Description:
At the dedication of the Santa Barbara Courthouse, the ceremonial setting of a bronze medallion provided by the Native Sons of Golden West. The participants are shown mixing the ingredients of water from each of the California missions with sand and gravel from each of the counties in California on the main stage in front of the main entrance to the courthouse.
Date:
August 14, 1929
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Ceremonial setting of a bronze medallion at the dedication of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, Santa Barbara, 1929

Central Building, Santa Barbara, [1929?]

Description:
Street view of Central Building, 6-story building with decorated roofline, with intersection, cars, and pedestrians in foreground. Business signs include: [Wool?]worth Co. 5 – 10- 15 Cent Store, Bank of America, Bitterly Co. Jewelry, Drugs, The Rexall Store. Location is the southwest corner of State Street and De La Guerra Street.
Date:
[1929?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Central Building, Santa Barbara, [1929?]

Central Airways pilots Paul Adams and John E. Tremayne in full uniform, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
Pilot and co-pilot Paul Adams and John E. Tremayne, respectively, pose in uniform typical of pilots: crisp white caps with dark bills and long buttoned jackets. Both wear metal airline pins of a round shape, with symbolc wings jutting from the center. During a flight from Hermosilla, Mexico to Los Angeles, the men witnessed what was possibly the passing of meteor. The men were employed by the Mexican airline, Central Airways.
Date:
October 26, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Central Airways pilots Paul Adams and John E. Tremayne in full uniform, Los Angeles, 1935

Centinela Springs Pageant rehearsal with Bonnie Emerie and Roy Winborn, Centinela Park, Inglewood, 1935

Description:
Bonnie Emerie, soprano, as Princess Centinela (wearing a fringed buckskin dress and moccasins), and Roy Winborn, baritone, as Don Antonio Rivera (a Spanish noble wearing a jacket and pants with tall boots, cape, ruff collar and cuffs, and baldric across chest with sheathed sword at side). Photo taken during a rehearsal for the Centinela Springs pageant at Inglewood Bowl, Centinela Park.
Date:
July 31, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Centinela Springs Pageant rehearsal with Bonnie Emerie and Roy Winborn, Centinela Park, Inglewood, 1935

Centinela Springs Pageant rehearsal with Bonnie Emerie and Owen Evans, Centinela Park, Inglewood, 1935

Description:
Singers Owen Evans as Toh-kah-la (kneeling, wearing a loin cloth and moccasins with a quiver over one shoulder) and Bonnie Emerie as Princess Centinela, (wearing a fringed, buckskin dress and moccasins), photographed during a rehearsal for the Centinela Springs pageant at Inglewood Bowl, Centinela Park (Edward Vincent Jr. Park).
Date:
August 12, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Centinela Springs Pageant rehearsal with Bonnie Emerie and Owen Evans, Centinela Park, Inglewood, 1935

Cement runways underneath Commercial Exchange Building, Los Angeles, between 1935 and 1936

Description:
In the mid-1930’s, the Commercial Exchange Building on Eighth and Olive Streets was re-sized to accommodate a street-widening project. A ten-foot segment was cut along the thirteen-story building, removed, and the two halves of the building pushed together. The job was supervised by Walker & Eisen and conducted by Kress House Moving Company.
Date:
[between 1935 and 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Cement runways underneath Commercial Exchange Building, Los Angeles, between 1935 and 1936

Cement runways underneath Commercial Exchange Building, Los Angeles, between 1935 and 1936

Description:
In the mid-1930’s, the Commercial Exchange Building on Eighth and Olive Streets was re-sized to accommodate a street-widening project. A ten-foot segment was cut along the thirteen-story building, removed, and the two halves of the building pushed together. The job was supervised by Walker & Eisen and conducted by Kress House Moving Company.
Date:
[between 1935 and 1936]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Cement runways underneath Commercial Exchange Building, Los Angeles, between 1935 and 1936

"Celestial Dragon" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935

Description:
The "Celestial Dragon" float features a floral dragon on a stairway, coiled around a pagoda. A float rider in a Chinese dress and lovely headdress is visible (Violet Leong or Midred Ginn). The float was designed by E. M. Pitzer and was entered by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and was photographed at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:
January 1, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
"Celestial Dragon" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935

Cedric Durst and Leona Durst, filed damages in automobile accident suit, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
View of Mrs. Leona Durst, in hat, blouse, jacket, standing next to husband, Mr. Cedric Durst, in collared shirt, tie, and jacket. Leona Durst filed a $27,000 damages suit against Ross Sparks for driving in a negligent manner when he crashed into her while she was waiting for the signal to change at Sunset and La Brea avenue. Cedric Durst, outfielder for the Hollywood baseball club, was also a plaintiff in the suit and asked $10,000 in damages.
Date:
September 18, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Cedric Durst and Leona Durst, filed damages in automobile accident suit, Los Angeles, 1935

C. D. Hamilton, Mayor Will Fowler, Jessie Reynolds, Harry Hopkins, E. Q. Sullivan, Earl Lee Kelly and an unidentified man at a ribbon cutting ceremony, Redlands, 1936

Description:
The previous Highway 99 was incredibly crooked, but thanks to the new Central-avenue link railroad crossings, crooks and turns, traffic and cross streets on the highway throughout the city, which will speed up transcontinental traffic.
Date:
January 21, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
C. D. Hamilton, Mayor Will Fowler, Jessie Reynolds, Harry Hopkins, E. Q. Sullivan, Earl Lee Kelly and an unidentified man at a ribbon cutting ceremony, Redlands, 1936

C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker at Mines Field after a transcontinental flight, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Left to right: C. B. D. Collyer, and unidentified man, and Harry Tucker stand in front of the the Yankee Doodle monoplane, a Lockheed-Vega, at Mines Field after a transcontinental flight. Collyer and Tucker piloted the plane. It was the second non-stop transcontinental flight, completed in twenty-four hours and fifty-eight minutes, which was non hour and fifty-two minutes under the record created by the first flight.
Date:
October 25, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker at Mines Field after a transcontinental flight, Los Angeles, 1928

C. B. D. Collyer, Allan Lockheed and Harry Tucker at Mines Field after a transcontinental flight, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:
Captain C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker (right), who flew the Yankee Doodle monoplane on the second transcontinental flight, holding telegrams of congratulations. With them is Alan Lockheed (2nd from right) who designed the Lockheed Vega monoplane that was flown, and other unidentified people. They are at Mines Field on the day that Collyer and Tucker completed the flight.
Date:
October 25, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
C. B. D. Collyer, Allan Lockheed and Harry Tucker at Mines Field after a transcontinental flight, Los Angeles, 1928

Cats at rubble-strewn doorway at the Hotel Carrillo after the earthquake, Santa Barbara, 1925

Description:
June 29, 1925 at 6:42 am a major earthquake hit the area of Santa Barbara. It was 19 seconds in duration and registered 6.8 on the Richter magnitude scale. The downtown of Santa Barbara was destroyed, the Sheffield Dam collapsed, and thirteen people died. The facade of the Mission Santa Barbara was severely damaged and lost its statues. Three persons thought to shut off the town electricity and gas, thereby preventing catastrophic fire. The city was rebuilt in a unified Spanish Colonial Revival style in 1925-1929.
Date:
June 29, 1925
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Cats at rubble-strewn doorway at the Hotel Carrillo after the earthquake, Santa Barbara, 1925

Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, interior view, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1939

Description:
The former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, located at 214 South Main Street, is one of Los Angeles' few remaining 19th century landmarks and was completed in 1876. The Cathedral was decommissioned at some point between 1994 and 1999 after which it underwent seismic retrofitting and restoration and, in the process, was converted to an event space called Vibiana.
Date:
[circa 1920-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, interior view, Los Angeles, circa 1920-1939

"Cathedral Gorge" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930

Description:
Float representing the rock pinnacles of Cathedral Gorge in Nevada. Dressed as Indian maidens and seated amidst desert plants at the base of the pinnacle are Betty Lloyd and Mary Reed. The float was entered by the city of Caliente, Nevada and is seen at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd.
Date:
January 1, 1930
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
"Cathedral Gorge" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930

Cat at rubble-strewn doorway at the Hotel Carrillo after the earthquake, Santa Barbara, 1925

Description:
On June 29, 1925 at 6:42 am a major earthquake hit the area of Santa Barbara. It was 19 seconds in duration and registered 6.8 on the Richter magnitude scale. The downtown of Santa Barbara was destroyed, the Sheffield Dam collapsed, and thirteen people died. The facade of the Mission Santa Barbara was severely damaged and lost its statues. Three persons thought to shut off the town electricity and gas, thereby preventing catastrophic fire. The city was rebuilt in a unified Spanish Colonial Revival style in 1925-1929.
Date:
June 29, 1925
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Cat at rubble-strewn doorway at the Hotel Carrillo after the earthquake, Santa Barbara, 1925

Cast of "The Drunkard": Merwin Lucas, Jeffrey Williams, Larry Grenier, Nestor Paiva, Lois Hunt, Sam Ethridge, Zan Joyce, Tom Miller, Helen Westcott, Jan Duggan, Mary Tock, George Stuart, Ada Lilly, and Karl Thomas, Los Angeles, 1938

Description:
"The Drunkard" is scheduled to beat the world's longest play record at 283 consecutive weeks plus one day. "Abie's Irish Rose" ran 283 weeks for the past 11 years.
Date:
December 1938
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Cast of "The Drunkard": Merwin Lucas, Jeffrey Williams, Larry Grenier, Nestor Paiva, Lois Hunt, Sam Ethridge, Zan Joyce, Tom Miller, Helen Westcott, Jan Duggan, Mary Tock, George Stuart, Ada Lilly, and Karl Thomas, Los Angeles, 1938

Cast of a commedia dell'arte performance at Occidental College, Eagle Rock (Los Angeles), 1930s

Description:
Cast of 5 men and 4 women commedia dell’arte costumes and masks, with and a Punchinello character in the center (played by Thurman Wilkins), standing in the empty amphitheater at Occidental College. The woman to the left of Punchinello is Vivian Andre and the woman on the right of Punchinello is Annie Lou Whitehouse.
Date:
[1930-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Cast of a commedia dell'arte performance at Occidental College, Eagle Rock (Los Angeles), 1930s

Casino on Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:
Casino on Tony Cornero’s newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:
August 9, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Casino on Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Casino on Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:
Casino on Tony Cornero’s newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:
August 9, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Casino on Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Casino on Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:
Casino on Tony Cornero’s newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Date:
August 9, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Casino on Tony Cornero's newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946

Cars marooned by flood debris outside Bohemian Gardens nightclub, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
View of automobiles half-submerged in flood debris outside of the Bohemian Gardens nightclub on Mission Road, just north of the Los Angeles County General Hospital (at 1200 N. State St). The cars are trapped in stone-encrusted mud; a pile of lumber is in the foreground and a high wall is in the background. This local flooding was caused by the failure of an old reservoir above Bohemian Gardens, which released a great body of water into the parking lot.
Date:
January 1, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Cars marooned by flood debris outside Bohemian Gardens nightclub, Los Angeles, 1934