US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Professional golfer Walter Hagen has the third highest count of major victories of all time (behind Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods). Max Turner was co-owner of the Turner and Stevens undertakers, a director of the Pasadena Department of Recreation and a director of the Community Playhouse. Helen Robinson had recently won the Sweetest Girl Contest in Chicago and was acting with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Photograph of (L to R) Walter Hagen, golf professional; Max Turner, Pasadena business man; and Helen Robinson, emerging MGM actress, grouped around a cake at a celebration during the 4th annual Pasadena Open golf tournament at the Brookside Golf Course. The message on the cake reads "Birthday Greetings, Pasadena Junior Chamber... 4th Annual $4,000 Open Golf Tour...Spectators watch from behind a low wall. Handwritten on negative: Walter Hagen, Max H. Turner, Helen Robinson Text on negative sleeve: Hagen, Walter Golf
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5070 ark:/21198/zz002cv1f2
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Golf--California--Pasadena Turner, Max H. (Max Harvey), 1903-1953 Pasadena Open (Golf tournament) Robinson, Helen Hagen, Walter, 1892-1969
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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