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Title
Hot rodders in Hollywood
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1960
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Young men in jeans and jackets wait to be processed after being picked up for drag racing. One, left, is sitting in the "shoeshine" seat next to the sign advertising rates. Photo caption reads: "Hot rodders booked in Hollywood for asserted drag racing. These youths were among 22 persons cited for drag racing in 'souped up' autos at Forest Lawn Dr. and Griffith Park Blvd., in Hollywood. More than 50 other drag racers escaped, police said". Photo dated: Jan. 6, 1960.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00072024
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10194.
CARL0000075535
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27524
Subject
Automobile racing--California--Los Angeles
Hot rods--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Detention of persons
Police stations--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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