Subject: Traffic regulations--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Automobile driven by Dick Russell and a bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies that competed in a race as part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until police officer Dick Barlow intervened. California Rug Cleaning Co. is in the background
Date:: April 1, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chamber of Commerce ladies chastising Dick Russell for the speeding ticket he received from motorcycle officer Dick Barlow during a planned race between an automobile and a bus. The race was part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until the officer intervened.
Date:: April 1, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Jail Meted to Dowling," Los Angeles Times, 18 July 1935: A2.
Date:: July 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dick Russell signing the speeding ticket he received from police officer Dick Barlow during a planned race between an automobile and a bus. The race was part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until the officer intervened. Russell is holding the Dunce cap he was obliged to wear after the exercise.
Date:: April 1, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Champion California bicycle rider Eddie Testa was arrested for going through a signal at 35 miles an hour by Motorcylce Officer Gus Heere. Judge Condee fined him $10 after observing in a law book that under the State Vehicle Act "traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles and animals."
Date:: December 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "THREE DIE IN TRAFFIC: Driver Arrested at Beach Judges Consider Proposal to Give Red Tags to Accident Cars," Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 1936: A1
Date:: April 8, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left to right, Municipal Judge William D. McConnell and City Prosecutor Jack Friedlander sit behind a desk in the Judge's office. Jack Friedlander holds up a piece of paper in front of them. Both men look down at the document.
Date:: [circa August 20, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Standing in front of an open door with Judge Russill Lillian holds an apple up to him with her stockings rolled down to the middle of her calves. Judge Russill looks at her sternly.
Date:: April 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Editorial page of Los Angeles Examiner with titles such as "Must be Clear Right of Way for Popular Terminal Verdict", and "What Money Can't Buy" that touch on topics such as new traffic laws and boyhood.
Date:: March 10, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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