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Title: Vice officers examine roulette wheel and chips
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
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: Vice officers J.D. Ruggles and L.R. Selby examine roulette wheel and chips, some of which were priced at $1000 a piece. Gay night crowd was playing for stakes "that could run as high as $150,000," one police officer said.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039692
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.
CARL0000043333
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15239
Subject: Gambling--California--Los Angeles
Roulette--California--Los Angeles
Gambling and crime--California--Los Angeles
Gambling chips
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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