Police officer Dick Barlow writing a ticket for Dick Russell during a planned race to demonstrate the importance of following traffic laws, Los Angeles, 1947
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Police officer Dick Barlow writing a ticket for Dick Russell during a planned race between an automobile and a bus. The race was part of a "Don't be April fools, obey Traffic rules" campaign to prove that safe driving always prospers. Russell sped and disobeyed traffic laws in the automobile and almost beat safe driver Frank Lampley's bus full of Chamber of Commerce ladies, until the Barlow intervened. Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Auto-bus Race
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b&w nitrate negative
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ark:/21198/zz00280r85
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Ticketing--California--Los Angeles Events Transportation Police--California--Los Angeles Traffic regulations--California--Los Angeles Barlow, Dick
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