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Title: Taxicab strike
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
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: Yellow Cab Company's Garage #1, a fenced parking area, full of parked taxicabs during a strike by the Cab Drivers Local 640 of the Teamsters Union. Lou Watson, superintendent of the garage, is talking to Ted Stewart. The cabs advertise "Exclusive aviation blend SkyPower, Chevron supreme gasoline". Photograph dated August 1, 1956.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00059443
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3042
CARL0000063163
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22718
Subject: Teamsters Union Local 640 (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Yellow Cab Company
Strikes and lockouts--Taxicabs--California--Los Angeles
Taxicabs--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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