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Description:: A line of radiator grilles, affixed with Studebaker's distinctive "lark in circle" hood ornament, at Studebaker's Los Angeles assembly plant in Vernon, Ca. Studebaker's Los Angeles plant was established in December of 1935, and its first completed car rolled off the assembly line on January 2, 1936. The plant closed on June 8, 1956.
Date:: [circa January 2, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The N.B. Scofield, the State Fisheries research ship. Captain Weseth and the N.B. Scofield recently returned from a 10 week survey trip of tropical tuna grounds and tuna migration habits. The ship sailed around the Galapagos Islands conducting the most extensive surveys ever done on the Pacific.
Date:: May 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Captain Lars H. Weseth of the State fisheries research ship the N.B. Scofield looking through binoculars. Captain Weseth and the N.B. Scofield recently returned from a 10 week survey trip of tropical tuna grounds and tuna migration habits. The ship sailed around the Galapagos Islands conducting the most extensive surveys ever done on the Pacific.
Date:: May 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Ship amid the smoke in L.A. Harbor that is coming from fires that began when the Markay, an oil tanker owned by the Keystone Tankship Corp., exploded in the wee hours of the morning. The fire was fed by leaking gasoline and threatened at least five terminals in the harbor. At least 22 were injured and 9, possibly 12, people were killed. Damage was estimated at $10,000,000.
Date:: June 22, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: "Lady Luck" boat is shipwrecked on the rocky shore of Rocky Point in Redondo Beach.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Strikers sit at a table and organize during Douglas Aircraft Corporation strike.
Date:: February 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A crowd gathers to view the Tupolev ANT-25 flown by Mikhail Gromov, Andrei Yumashev, and Sergei Danilin from Moscow to a field outside San Jacinto, CA. The non-stop flight covered 6700 miles in 62 hours and 12 minutes, smashing the previous record for longest non-stop flight. July 14, 1937.
Date:: July 14, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: J.W. Buzzell taking oath in court during his trial for reckless driving. Buzzell, executive secretary of the A.F.L. Central Labor Council, drove his car into a crowd of people who were gathered around a pedestrian injured in an accident shortly before. Buzzell was acquitted of the charges.
Date:: March 26, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Seagull perched atop a pole at the bow of 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

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