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Title: Gas explosion uncovers gambling 'warehouse
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1950
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: Officers display some of more than 100 slot machines found in the basement of a Lynwood house, after a gas explosion blew out the house windows. Various other gambling equipment was also found. Officials to investigate the possibility the house may have been the nerve center for a national gambling syndicate.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039507
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.
CARL0000042542
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12175
Subject: Gambling--California--Los Angeles
Slot machines
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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