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7 images. Teenage auto safety conference (Long Beach), 8 May 1958. F. Martin Post Sue Corwin Laurie Loomis Jal Polier Vici Lamain Lavonne Hyden Lynn Wynnik Loretta Fota Karen Gaspar Earl Rugraff Delores White Tina Promeroy. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gershon. Date: 1958-05-08. Reporter: Gershon. Assignment: Long Beach Teen Auto Safety Conference. No. 2: Pat richardson, 16, Lakewood High School, first seat, urged compelled driver education before license be granted, and her schoolmate, Kathleen Morris, 16, agreed. No. 4: Lavonne Hyden, 15, L.B. Poly High, raises hand to protest faulty residential roads in Long Beach on her left is Lynn Winnik, 16, Millikan High School, who also protested dangerous road dips". 5: Karen Gaspar, 17, St. Anthony's High School, L.B., standing, declares 'driver's ed. should be made harder to pass' while Patsy Funck, 17, schoolmate, and R.F. Gravager, Huntington Beach driver ed. teacher, listen, seated. 6: Dolores White, 16, Jordan High, and Tina Promeroy, 16, listen intently to safety advice. 7: Earl Rugraff, 17, Montebello High School, standing, urges student body policing of school streets and parking lots with power to place citations on violator cars to be checked by school authorities and police. 8: Lorretta Fota, 18, St. Anthony High School, standing, acts as moderator along with James Sexton, of Millikan Hi School Clarence E. Richie, consultant".
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image
Format
7 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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