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Title
Steps to garage of death
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1935
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
It was surmised that Thelma Todd may have walked up these steps which lead from her seaside cafe to the road on which the garage where she was found dead was located. Here a man stands part of the way up the steps.; The three-story, 15,000-square-foot Spanish style strusture where the murder took place was located at 17575 Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades. In the early 1930s, this structure housed a restaurant on the ground floor owned by actress Thelma Todd and her partner Roland West. The duo also held parties in their private nightclub named Joya's, located on the second story near her personal apartment. At the time Todd owned the building, the hexagonal-shaped, third-floor included a dance floor and bandstand., which was famous for its Joya's barbequed steaks.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00013000
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2177-B-1-Thelma Todd.; HE-001-125 4x5
CARL0000017420
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8160
Subject
Murder--California--Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles)
Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Todd, Thelma,1905-1935

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