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Title
Caught Hot Rod racing
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1948
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
A large group of young hot-rodders mill through jail doors are they are processed after sentencing. The photo caption reads: "35 "Hot-Rod" drivers get jail sentences. Shown above are some of the 35 young "hot-rod" driving enthusiasts who were sentenced today to five days in jail each. All of the drivers lost their licenses for 30 days. Officer Harold Nenny, background, holds the drivers' suspended licenses (arrow). The young drivers were accused of holding regular weekly "meets" along Sepulveda boulevard near San Fernando road". Photo dated: Mar. 11, 1948.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00071933
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10194.
CARL0000075016
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27416
Subject
Nenny, Harold
Automobile racing--California--Los Angeles
Hot rods--California--Los Angeles
Sentences (Criminal procedure)--California--Los Angeles
Jails--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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