Image / Hitchhiking sailors outside the Naval and Marine Training Center, Los Angeles, 1947

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Title: Hitchhiking sailors outside the Naval and Marine Training Center, Los Angeles, 1947
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Two Mexican American sailers attempt to hitch rides from the Navy Training Center to their homes in Chavez Ravine, near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
Bus lines to and from Chavez Ravine and the rest of Los Angeles were contested throughout the 1940s and 1950s.
Type: image
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb8k4009cx
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Sailors
Chávez Ravine (Los Angeles, Calif.)
War
Mexican American neighborhoods--California--Los Angeles
Landmarks
Hitchhiking
Bus lines--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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