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William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, is reunited with his children after his kidnapping, Beverly Hills, 1934

Description:
William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire and businessman, is reunited with his four children after his kidnapping. Gettle was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a housewarming party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:
May 14, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, is reunited with his children after his kidnapping, Beverly Hills, 1934

William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, is returned home after his kidnapping, Beverly Hills, 1934

Description:
William F. Gettle, (center, wearing spectacles) is returned to his home in Beverly Hills after being kidnapped and held for ransom.Gettle, businessman and millionaire, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:
May 14, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, is returned home after his kidnapping, Beverly Hills, 1934

When Ground Doves Fly Book Launch

Description:
Invitation for Ms. Christine Roachford by Ian Randle Publishers for the celebration of the publication of When Ground Doves Fly by Esther Phillips. Event held at the Grande Salle of Barbados Central Bank. Esther Phillips is a literary icon in Barbados who became the island's first ever poet laureate. When Ground Doves Fly is her first full length collection of poems.
Date:
April 11, 2003
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
When Ground Doves Fly Book Launch

West Indies Accounts (ed. R. McDonald) and Inside Slavery (ed. H. Beckles) Book Launch

Description:
Launch of two books: Roderick A. McDonald's (ed.) West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan & Hilary McD. Beckles' (ed.) Inside Slavery: Process and Legacy in the Caribbean Experience. Event held at UWI.
Date:
Between 1996 and 1997
Resource Type:
text
Collection:
Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program
West Indies Accounts (ed. R. McDonald) and Inside Slavery (ed. H. Beckles) Book Launch

Wedding cake float in the Rose Parade, Pasadena, 1927

Description:
Three-layer wedding cake float on a gondola-like boat with boy gondolier and girl riding in the boat and topped with boy and girl, Harold Van Horn and Ardath Aline Elsasser, dressed as a bride and groom beneath an archway. Inscribed in flowers on the side of the boat: Davis.... The float was entered by the Davis Perfection Bakery.
Date:
January 1, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Wedding cake float in the Rose Parade, Pasadena, 1927

W.C. Mullendore and Walter Haas at the 49th annual banquet for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce held at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, February 22, 1940

Description:
Executive vice president of the Southern California Edison Co., W.C. Mullendore, and president of Levi Strauss & Co., Walter Haas, at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce’s 49th annual banquet in the Ambassador Hotel’s fiesta room. Over 1,000 business, civic and social leaders attended the banquet which is held every year on George Washington’s birthday. The event celebrates the achievements of the Chamber of Commerce over the past year and lays out programs for the coming year.
Date:
February 22, 1940
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
W.C. Mullendore and Walter Haas at the 49th annual banquet for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce held at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, February 22, 1940

Warner Bros. Studio during the Conference of Studio Unions strike, Los Angeles, 1945

Description:
The Conference of Studio Unions strike was against all Hollywood studios. The CSU strike began in March 1945 and was around the six month mark when it turned violent on October 5, 1945, known as Hollywood Black Friday. National exposure of this violence forced negotiations between studios and the CSU. Negotiation ended the strike about a month later, but CSU didn't last much longer and was eventually disbanded and absorbed by rival union IATSE.
Date:
October 1945
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Warner Bros. Studio during the Conference of Studio Unions strike, Los Angeles, 1945

Warner Bros. Studio during the Conference of Studio Unions strike, Los Angeles, 1945

Description:
The Conference of Studio Unions strike was against all Hollywood studios. The CSU strike began in March 1945 and was around the six month mark when it turned violent on October 5, 1945, known as Hollywood Black Friday. National exposure of this violence forced negotiations between studios and the CSU. Negotiation ended the strike about a month later, but CSU didn't last much longer and was eventually disbanded and absorbed by rival union IATSE.
Date:
October 1945
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Warner Bros. Studio during the Conference of Studio Unions strike, Los Angeles, 1945

Virginia Pizzini (Miss Venice), Eugene Biscailuz, and crowd, Venice, 1929

Description:
Virginia Pizzini, Miss Venice 1929, with Los Angeles County Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz and many others, most with hands and hats raised. Group is posing on a Venice street with a firefighters' life net, set vertically, on which is drawn a U.S. map, printed with "Miss So. California invites all Elkdom to Los Angeles in 1929."
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Virginia Pizzini (Miss Venice), Eugene Biscailuz, and crowd, Venice, 1929

Violinist Fritz Kreisler and sculptor Arnold Foerster at the unveiling of Foerster's statue of Beethoven in Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:
Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, and regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing.
Date:
[circa 1932-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Violinist Fritz Kreisler and sculptor Arnold Foerster at the unveiling of Foerster's statue of Beethoven in Pershing Square, Los Angeles, 1932