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Roland C. Casad advertises the Los Angeles Times with a carved gourd, Los Angeles, 1925

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Title: Roland C. Casad advertises the Los Angeles Times with a carved gourd, Los Angeles, 1925
Date Created and/or Issued: November 8, 1925
1925-11-08
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The gourd that Mr. Casad is holding has the following carved onto it in English: “Read the Los Angeles Times for news and advertising. Read ‘Unemployment and It’s Solution’ By Roland C. Castro for Ideas!”
Mr. Casad is said to have discovered an apple tree growing on the property of H.E. Ellery that grows massive fruit weighing over two pounds and measuring eighteen inches around the waist. He considers himself to be a melon grower and experimenter.
Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Big Apples Produced at Oceanside," Los Angeles Times, 08 Nov 1925: J6.
Roland holds a large vegetable that looks like a squash which has carved on it "READ THE LOS ANGELES TIMES FOR NEWS AND ADVERTISING, READ "UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS SOLUTION" BY ROLAND C CASAD FOR IDEAS!"
Handwritten on negative: Roland C. Casad
Text from negative sleeve: CASAD, ROLAND C. 1925
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1507
ark:/21198/zz002dc03j
Language: English
Subject: Squashes--California--Los Angeles
Carving--California--Los Angeles
Depressions--California--Los Angeles
Casad, Roland Cortez, 1876-1951
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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