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Title
Officers raid Chinese gambling den
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1954
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Vice squadders wheeling 16 pound sledgehammers broke up tables and other equipment in a raid on a Chinese gambling den at 505 1/2 East First Street. Crowd of 55 Oriental gamblers were arrested. Photo dated: July 28, 1954.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00039664
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.
CARL0000043319
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15224
Subject
Gambling--California--Los Angeles
Gambling and crime--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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