A different photograph shows the location as Fort Moore Hill near the Broadway Tunnel. A billboard ad for the movie Tarzan and his Mate dates the photograph to 1934. (uclamss_1429_5558)
From left to right: Frank H. Brumby; Mayor Frank Shaw; Harry L. Harper, president of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce; Frederick P. Woellner; W. A. Simpson. They are seated at a banquet table at the Ambassador Hotel with a mural depicting a Spanish dancer and musicians is on the wall behind them.
John C. Porter seated at table with judge sitting at table to his left with gavel in his hand. The commission might of been established to look into the troublesome noise that railroads were causing during a study in 1931.
John M. Larronde was president of the fire commission. James Cairns was chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce Fire Prevention Committee. Bert M. Blake was Deputy Chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department. William O. Harris was also the head of Kiwanis International.