Frank Nanny, Pacific Electric motor coach operator, calls his girlfriend, Ann Garcia, from a phone booth in the Subway Terminal Building to say, "come and get me, I got no way to get home. There's a strike." He is holding a bouquet of pink roses for Ann and his conductor's hat and a metal case are at his feet. A another man is partially visible in the neighboring phone booth. Photograph dated May 24, 1946.
Pacific Electric Railway Company--Employees Subway Terminal Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Strikes and lockouts--Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles Local transit--Employees Telephone booths--California--Los Angeles Telephone calls--California--Los Angeles Telephones Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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