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Title: Kiwanis sponsors 'Race for Lives
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
The San Fernando Drag Strip, in operation during the 1950s and 1960s, was located at Glenoaks Blvd. and Arroyo Avenue.
Photograph caption dated April 24, 1959 reads, "Karen Griffin of Panorama City, Miss Drag Strip, sells first tickets to Panorama City Kiwanis Club's 'Race for Lives' scheduled May 10 at San Fernando drag Strip. Assisting with sale are, from left, App Miles, Kiwanis president; Robert Beck of Panorama City, and Herb Lightfoot, Kiwanis Club publicity chairman. Proceeds from event, featuring sports, stock and hot rod cars, will be used for underprivileged children."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00109189
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d009_f4_i10
CARL0005238874
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/44508
Subject: Kiwanis of Panorama City
Kiwanis of Panorama City--Presidents
Fund raising--California--San Fernando
Drag racing--California--San Fernando
Women--California--San Fernando
Men--California--San Fernando
San Fernando (Calif.)
San Fernando Drag Strip (San Fernando, Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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