Location: Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Events - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Pictured is "Pop-eye," the two-year-old Persian housecat pet of one young Miss Betty Jean Welch, famous for killing a four-foot-long black diamond rattlesnake. The snake invaded Pop-eye's backyard, wherein Pop-eye defended his territory and bravely defeated the reptilian invader.
Date:: March 15, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The four-foot-long black diamond rattlesnake pictured was killed by "Pop-eye", the two-year-old Persian housecat pet of one young Miss Betty Jean Welch. The snake invaded Pop-eye's backyard, wherein Pop-eye defended his territory and bravely defeated the reptilian invader.
Date:: March 15, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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