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Title: From dice table to the paddy wagon
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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: Marching into the police paddy wagon from a dice table in a luxurious house in the hills above the Sunset Strip are some of the 14 persons arrested in a gambling raid. Twelve men and two women were arrested. Officers said that before staging the raid, they watched the gambling through peepholes bored in the gambling room and saw an Oregon lumberman lose $4000 in a crooked dice game. Photo dated: June 26, 1953.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039672
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.
CARL0000043327
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15233
Subject: Gambling--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Gambling and crime--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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