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Description:: Employees at The May Co. department store prepare for downtown Dollar Day. Tom May, executive vice-president of the company predicted this Dollar Day would bring in record-breaking numbers of customers
Date:: February 1940
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Drum majorette Betty Atkinson photographed with a group of police officers during an annual parade and entertainment show put on by the Los Angeles Police Department. The event drew 40,000 spectators. July 9, 1937.
Date:: July 9, 1937
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police on motorcycles on the L.A.P.D. parade route, which led to the Coliseum where a four-hour entertainment program was presented. Forty-thousand persons were in attendance.
Date:: July 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police on foot at the beginning of the L.A.P.D. parade route, which led to the Coliseum where a four-hour entertainment program was presented. Forty-thousand persons were in attendance.
Date:: July 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Crowd lined up outside Shrine Auditorium for a San Francisco Opera Association performance of Tristan and Isolde (Tristan und Isolde) on opening night of the Opera. Star of the show was Kirsten Flagstad, the Norwegian soprano, accompanied by the San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Date:: November 15, 1937
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Police and strikers outside Oblath's Studio Cafe near Paramount Pictures during the Conference of Studio Unions strike against all Hollywood studios. The CSU strike began in March 1945 and was around the six month mark when it turned violent on October 5, 1945, known as Hollywood Black Friday. National exposure of this violence forced negotiations between studios and the CSU. Negotiation ended the strike about a month later, but CSU didn't last much longer and was eventually disbanded and absorbed by rival union IATSE.
Date:: October 19, 1945
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia, center, presides over the Pacific coast regional meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Boston Mayor Frederick Mansfield, left, served as Mr. La Guardia's secretary. Approximately 60 Pacific coast mayors attended the conference. Unemployment relief was a focal topic at the conference, which was held at Los Angeles' City Council chamber. May 15, 1937.
Date:: May 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia, center, presides over the Pacific coast regional meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Boston Mayor Frederick Mansfield, left, served as Mr. La Guardia's secretary. Approximately 60 Pacific coast mayors attended the conference. Unemployment relief was a focal topic at the conference, which was held at Los Angeles' City Council chamber. May 15, 1937.
Date:: May 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia, center, presides over the Pacific coast regional meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Boston Mayor Frederick Mansfield, left, served as Mr. La Guardia's secretary. Approximately 60 Pacific coast mayors attended the conference. Unemployment relief was a focal topic at the conference, which was held at Los Angeles' City Council chamber. May 15, 1937.
Date:: May 15, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Audience gathered at the Hollywood Bowl to hear Eleanor Roosevelt speak. Eleanor and her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Los Angeles for a day before visiting San Diego. During their time in Los Angeles, the President gave a speech at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a speech at the Hollywood Bowl.
Date:: October 01, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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