Location: Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) / Names: American Legion - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The camera looks east and down onto Hollywood Boulevard during the American Legion's parade and convention. Hollywood Boulevard stretches straight back through center. In the mid-ground, Highland Avenue stretches across the image. On the near side of the intersection, a row of several flag bearers leads the procession. More color bearers carry American flags as they march in lines towards the camera. Striped banners wave over Hollywood Boulevard as it extends into the distance.
Date:: [circa August 10, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The camera looks east and down at Hollywood Boulevard during the American Legion's parade and convention. Color bearers carry American flags as they march in lines towards the camera. Along the right edge, from front to back, the Hollywood Masonic Temple and the El Capitain Theatre line the south side of Hollywood Boulevard. The parade along Hollywood Boulevard stretches into the distance at center. In the background at left, the Hollywood First National Bank Building rises.
Date:: [circa August 10, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A large crowd gathers inside Warner Brothers convention hall during the opening session of the American Legion's annual conference. The front end of a stage stretches along the bottom edge. Beyond it, hundreds of attendees completely fill the auditorium. They sit facing towards the camera. Numbered signs rise out from the crowd and note each district. Striped banners hang from the auditorium's ceiling. A large American flag hangs in the back of the auditorium at center.
Date:: [circa August 10, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph appears with the article “Couple Wedded as Legion Post Joins in Ceremony.” Los Angeles Times, 9 June 1935: 20. The article states: At a unique dinner-dance of a Hollywood American Legion post last night, Miss Linnea Weber … became the bride of Howard A. Blackwell …
Date:: June 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Tinkler, Leymel, and Anderson stand together with smiles and wearing their hats with the Legion insignias.
Date:: September 7, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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