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Title
Police in crackdown on freeway trucks
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
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
Photograph caption dated July 15, 1954 reads, "Two trucks stopped - Police pull two big trucks over on Hollywood Freeway near Cahuenga Pass to check them for muffler violations. Police stopped 45 vehicles in first crackdown on noisy trucks, cited seven drivers for operating with defective mufflers."; See image #00114741 for additional photo in this series.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00114740
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f11_i8
CARL0005303731
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48397
Subject
California Highway Patrol--Officials and employees
Truck drivers--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--Motors--Mufflers
Trucks--California--Los Angeles
Express highways--California, Southern
Men--California--San Fernando Valley
North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Cahuenga Pass (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States Highway 101
Valley Times Collection photographs

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