Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph appears with the article, "Mayor Opens Fast Air Service. Order Starts T.-W.A. Ship From East," Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 1932: 14. Harris W. Beck: assistant general traffic master C. A. Holzer (superintendent of the Postal Telegraph Company) and H. W. Beck (TWA Traffic Manager) watch as Mayor John C. Porter places the call from his City Hall office to New York to initiate coast-to-coast flights. Text from negative sleeve: Beck, H. W. TWA. Text from newspaper caption: One-Day Coast-to-Coast Flights Inaugurated. Left to right--C. A. Holzer, H. W. Beck and Mayor Porter, as letter gives order at City Hall here that starts air liner on way from New York to Los Angeles.
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_1084 ark:/21198/zz002dbgh2
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Mayors--California--Los Angeles Air travel Beck, Harris W. (Harris Walton), 1890-1971 Trans World Airlines Holzer, C. A. (Charles Adolph), 1878-1960 Porter, John C. (John Clinton), 1871-1959
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