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Rain-flooded intersection at Sixth and Catalina Streets, Los Angeles, 1927

Description:
Another similar photograph of 6th street during this storm is captioned: J. Pluvius Has Field Day With Los Angeles Traffic and Business. The outlying districts were not the only ones to feel the effects of the continuous downpour of the last few days. This photo at Sixth and Catalina streets in the heart of the apartment house district. (Photos by George R. Watson, Times Staff Photographer) [Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1927: 8]
Date:
February 15, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Rain-flooded intersection at Sixth and Catalina Streets, Los Angeles, 1927

Coroner Frank Nance, Los Angeles Superintendent of Parks Frank Shearer, and jury, [Los Angeles?], [1933?]

Description:
Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, October 12, 1933, Incendiary Sign in Blaze Cited, Park Fire Tragedy Inquest Witnesses Tell Story, Mysterious Stranger Seen Fleeing From Scene, Inquiry May Be Drawn Out Over Several Days. … The two witnesses were Frank Shearer, superintendent of the city park department, and F.W. Roewekamp, park landscape engineer, who both testified that they were but a few hundred yards distant when the blaze started …
Date:
1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Coroner Frank Nance, Los Angeles Superintendent of Parks Frank Shearer, and jury, [Los Angeles?], [1933?]

John True, state witness at the Monahan murder trial, with Dep. Dist. Atty. J. Miller Leavy and 2 other attorneys, Los Angeles, 1953

Description:
Barbara Graham, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins were convicted of the murder of Mabel Monahan in 1953, during a robbery attempt in her home, and were executed two years later. John True and Baxter Shorter participated in the robbery. Shorter confessed when arrested for another charge, and was kidnapped and murdered by Perkins and Santo. During the trial, John True was a state witness in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
Date:
1953
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
John True, state witness at the Monahan murder trial, with Dep. Dist. Atty. J. Miller Leavy and 2 other attorneys, Los Angeles, 1953

Passenger Esther Pearce pays fare to trolley operator J.W. Looney, Los Angeles, 1935

Description:
A female passenger, Mrs. Esther Pearce, pays her fare on a trolley as a male Los Angeles Railway employee, J.W. Looney, looks on. Pearce carries a coat with a fur collar on one arm. Looney wears a uniform typical of an urban railway operator or ticket taker of the time, with a brimmed cap, three-piece suit, and a portable coin dispenser belted to his middle. Another railcar can be seen in the background.
Date:
October 7, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Passenger Esther Pearce pays fare to trolley operator J.W. Looney, Los Angeles, 1935

June Marlowe is unused in her husband's court case, Los Angeles, 1934

Description:
June Marlowe reflects that court is a lot like the motion picture business in that sometimes you are called to the set (or in this case courtroom) and wait and wait and are finally dismissed without having been needed. Ms. Marlowe was supposed to testify for her husband Rodney S. Sprigg in a suit against him in connection with a stock transaction.
Date:
April 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
June Marlowe is unused in her husband's court case, Los Angeles, 1934

Participants at military ball, University of California, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:
Related to the article “Ten Candidates Vie for Award, Affair One of Smartest on University Campus, Distinguished Names Make Up List of Patrons, Riviera County Club to Be Setting for Event.” Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 1933: A6. The article states: Gala event of the University of California at Los Angeles will be the annual military ball … the Scabbard and Blade men will choose an honorary colonel … The fortunate ten … include … Miss Florence Blackman … Patrons will include … Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Edward J. Moran, Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Raymond C. Baird …
Date:
1933
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Participants at military ball, University of California, Los Angeles, 1933