Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A different photograph of Alden Rhoades taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Boy Shoots at Prowler," Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 1935: 6. Photograph of Alden Rhoades aiming a rifle in the direction of his family's garage (3746 4th Ave.). Text from negative sleeve: 1740. Aalden Rhoads [sic] - 13. Shoots at Prowler. 8/2/35. [Stamped:] Aug 22 1935. Text from newspaper caption: Quick Thinking Puts Intruder to Flight. Sixteen-year old Alden Rhoades remembered two things early yesterday morning: his father's new motorcycle and a suspected thief's legs. So nobody was killed and the bike was saved. The youth is shown here aiming his father's .22-caliber rifle with which he defended his home against a prowler.
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