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Title: Ollyn Layne and his flapjack machine, Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: May 1931
1931-05
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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.
Ollyn Layne, with the help of his mother and uncle, has successfully introduced his flapjack machine to the public, feeding 700 destitute and poor men.
Mr. Layne stands in front of his machine with an unidentified man who holds a plate of flapjacks and a cup.
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Similar photograph appears with the article, "Free Flapjacks Flap Fast," Los Angeles Times, 09 May 1931: 16.
Text from negative sleeve: LAYNE, OLLYN Layne, Ollyn (A.) X
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5460
ark:/21198/zz002cvgw2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Pancakes & waffles--California--Los Angeles
Aprons--California--Los Angeles
Cookery--California--Los Angeles
Inventions
Layne, Ollyn, 1893-1974
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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