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. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. A Chevrolet car, picture taken from the front 3/4 view. The windshield is cracked with a big hole on the passenger side. It is on a dirt road. Two more cars are in the background along with some buildings. An partially obscured unidentified man stands in the foreground of the picture. Three men robbed Pacific National Bank of $2500 on 108th Street and Broadway on September 20, 1926, then stole a getaway car. Two of the men were shot by the neighboring drugstore owner and the bank manager, and the robbers abandoned the car on 102nd and Denker Streets. Related to "Bank Bandits Believed Shot," Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep 1926: A12. Handwritten on negative: Stolen car used by bandits who held up Bank at 108th St. & Bdy License plate of car: B52 033. CAL26. Handwritten on negative sleeve: Pacific Nat'l Bank X
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7061 ark:/21198/zz002cxd33
Language
English
Subject
Robberies--California--Los Angeles Automobile theft--California--Los Angeles County Banks--California--Los Angeles Automobiles--American--California--Los Angeles Pacific National Bank (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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