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Description:: Boys from financially disadvantaged backgrounds participate in a free summer camp in Griffith Park. The camp, which was organized by Sheriff Biscailuz, lasted hosted groups of 100 boys for 10 days at a time. While at camp, the boys participated in activities such as swimming, fencing, baseball, various hobbies, and a nonsectarian religious program. The camp's 1937 season lasted from July 6th to September 4th.
Date:: [circa July 6, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Boys from financially disadvantaged backgrounds participate in a free summer camp in Griffith Park. The camp, which was organized by Sheriff Biscailuz, lasted hosted groups of 100 boys for 10 days at a time. While at camp, the boys participated in activities such as swimming, fencing, baseball, various hobbies, and a nonsectarian religious program. The camp's 1937 season lasted from July 6th to September 4th.
Date:: [circa July 6, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Boys from financially disadvantaged backgrounds participate in a free summer camp in Griffith Park. The camp, which was organized by Sheriff Biscailuz, lasted hosted groups of 100 boys for 10 days at a time. While at camp, the boys participated in activities such as swimming, fencing, baseball, various hobbies, and a nonsectarian religious program. The camp's 1937 season lasted from July 6th to September 4th.
Date:: [circa July 6, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Al Pedrosa sitting in his soap box derby racing car on a barren stretch of road. The race was sponsored at least partially by Chevrolet
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Al Pedrosa smiling in his soap box derby racing car while the crowd gathers for the race. The race was at least partially sponsored by Chevrolet
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Al Pedrosa waving from his soap box derby racing car. The race was sponsored at least in part by Chevrolet
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Student being pushed into a fountain as part of a hazing ritual at Los Angeles Junior College. Many boys are gathered around, some holding wooden paddles.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Twenty-one Boy Scouts and three leaders from Troop 47 in Los Angeles drinking hot chocolate after being marooned overnight on a bluff 1000 feet above the canyon floor in the Upper Arroyo Seco Canyon. The scouts became lost on their way back during a seven mile hike between Switzer's Camp and Oake Wilde. The troop lit matches to signal a rescue party of parents, deputy sheriffs, and county prisoners. One of the leaders, David Swaim, suffered a minor heart attack two miles from camp so the scouts carried him the rest of the way on a stretcher.
Date:: December 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Members of Boy Scout Troop 47, who were marooned overnight on a bluff 1000 feet above the canyon floor in the Upper Arroyo Seco Canyon. The scouts became lost on their way back during a seven mile hike between Switzer's Camp and Oake Wilde. The troop lit matches to signal a rescue party of parents, deputy sheriffs, and county prisoners. One of the leaders, David Swaim, suffered a minor heart attack two miles from camp so the scouts carried him the rest of the way on a stretcher.
Date:: December 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Woman talks to a group of teenagers skipping school outside a drugstore in downtown Los Angeles. The truancy problem prompted the 10th District Congress of Parents and Teachers to recommend an expansion of the truancy detail, which would include increasing personnel in outlying portions of the district as well as on beaches
Date:: March 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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