Subject: Wrigley Ocean Marathon - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The tug boat John N. Stewart was owned by William Wrigley and took its maiden voyage in 1926. It was the first electrically driven tug boat on the Pacific Coast. It was named after the vice president of the Wilmington Transportation Company.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rescued Wrigley Ocean Marathon swimmer assisted in a boat. The swimmer is lying down in the center foreground as 2 men assist him. Others watch.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of swimmers beginning the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove on Santa Catalina Island. Starting with the swimmer in the 1-shouldered black swim suit on the right, seven swimmers are identified in the newspaper caption from R to L. Boats in the water wait to accompany the swimmers, who attempting to swim the channel to Point Vincent on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a Wrigley Ocean Marathon swimmer rescued from the cold ocean. He is covered in blankets on a stretcher that 2 men carry down the gang plank of a boat. Spectators on either side of the gang plank watch.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the shore of Isthmus Cove on Santa Catalina Island on the day of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon. Placards with the numbers assigned to the swimmers, on sticks stuck in the sand, line the shore along with a few small boats. A few marathon workers are among the placards and boats and a few spectators stand on the higher ground behind them with a small building in the distance. The absence of the swimmers indicates that the time is either somewhat before or after the 11:00 am start of the marathon.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of George Young, winner of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon, receiving a check for $25,000 from William Wrigley, Jr. (left, in hat) as Sid Grauman looks on (right). A photographer is in the foreground (left).
Date:: January 17, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The swimmers are identified, with with their registration numbers and home addresses, in The Catalina Islander, 12 Jan. 1927: 5.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Girls in bathing suits at a Los Angeles beach pretend to practice for the Wrigley Ocean Marathon. Eight girls prone on beach chairs do the crawl stroke as others watch from behind. Many of the spectators hold musical instruments including a clarinet, 2 saxophones, a bass, a violin, a trumpet, a banjo and a drum.
Date:: January 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of spectators on the shore watching swimmers begin the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove, Santa Catalina Island. Boats with swim coaches and observers follow the swimmers.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Byron Summers, competitor in the January marathon Catalina Channel swim, had to stop his swim when overcome by a leg cramp. He won the marathon swim the following April.
Date:: January 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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