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Description:: Women standing on top of big letters on the floor that say "BEVERLY HILLS" at the La Cienega Blvd. waterworks as a temporary identification mark for aviators. Others stand behind the women. This photograph may be related to the article, "Air Guide Dedicated by Suburb: Beverly Hills Opens rive for Municipal Airport as It Installs Large Sign," Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 1928: A11.
Date:: October 30, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reported in "SOMEBODY THREW 'EM 'NATURAL' BUT THEY LOOK LIKE 'BOX CAR'," Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 1928: A11
Date:: October 30, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pacific & Atlantic
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Will Rogers Jr. (left), new editor of the Beverly Hills Citizen, and Lee Shippey, Los Angeles Times columnist, perhaps as guests of honor at a Beverly Hills Men's Club meeting at the Victor Hugo Café. They are seated at a banquet table after a meal.
Date:: November 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photo of unknown people at the Beverly Hills “Lottery Trial” of William Freelove and Howard J. Rile in October, 1935
Date:: October 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photo of unknown people at the “Lottery Trial” of William Freelove and Howard J. Rile in October, 1935
Date:: October 9, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The search continues for William F. Gettle while his family anxiously awaits his return.
Date:: May 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: William F. Gettle, kidnapping victim, is reunited with his four children (twins Betty and Bobby, and sons Billy and Jimmy) upon his homecoming.Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire and businessman, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:: May 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills businessman and millionaire, is reunited with his four children after his kidnapping. Gettle was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a housewarming party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:: May 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire and businessman, is reunited with his four children after his kidnapping. Gettle was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a housewarming party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:: May 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: William F. Gettle, (center, wearing spectacles) is returned to his home in Beverly Hills after being kidnapped and held for ransom.Gettle, businessman and millionaire, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:: May 14, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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