Genre: news photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Location: Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: This photograph appears with the article "Where 'Gopher Bandits' Burrowed in Vain: Old Tunnel Under Bank Reveals Robbery Plot." Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 1935: A1.
Date:: September 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Groundbreaking ceremonies took place at the future site of a new civic building in Watts, on 1519 One Hundred and Third street, on January 16, 1936.
Date:: January 16, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of Theodore Harkcom, police officer, crawling out of tunnel in police hat and uniform. Workers discovered a tunnel beneath the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Watts when replacing the flooring in the bank. Unused acetylene torches, tanks, and hose were found in the tunnels. Indications show the diggings had been abandoned along with the vault equipment, two or three years ago. The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Watts has no connection with the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles.
Date:: September 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A crowd is gathered around a digger at the ground breaking ceremony for a new municipal building in Watts. From left to right: Councilman Franklin P. Buyer, with his hand on his hip; Emily Vincent; Paul G. Ritter, president of Board of Public Works; Mayor Frank Shaw; Otto B. Frank, with shovel in hand.
Date:: January 16, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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