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Title: Raid on Pi Que (Chinese dominoes) gamblers
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: Police raiders had to go through an innocent-appearing restaurant and then through a labyrinth of passages to heavy doors at the precise moment when they were unbarred, in order to effect last night's haul of Pi Que (Chinese dominoes) gamblers on North Spring Street. Dominoe hands on the gambling table are beside a typical "hand" of the gambling counters. Photo dated: August 31, 1954.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039516
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.
CARL0000042563
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12184
Subject: Gambling--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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