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Young adults on a ride at the Venice Beach fun house, Venice (Los Angeles), 1936

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Title: Young adults on a ride at the Venice Beach fun house, Venice (Los Angeles), 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1936
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Four young adults appear to be having fun while bracing themselves against a tunnel that appears to be moving. The man on the left appears to be Hal Booth (Willis Harold Booth), fiance of Ann McNaghten.
Possibly related to the article "BEWILDERING MACHINERY OF MIRTH MIXES NEW AND JOLLY COMPLEXITIES," Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1936: D3.
Text from newspaper caption: When Bob English and Jack Hyland invited a large party of friends to the Venice Fun House these honored guests were among the most blithe merrymakers: Hal Booth, Malcolm McNaghten, Mrs. McNaghten and Ann McNaghten. [Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1936: D3]
Text from negative sleeve: 3693 -- [stamped date illegible] / Ann McNaghten / Mrs. Malcolm McNaghten (Ma) / Mr. '' '' (Pa) / Hal Booth (fiance) / (Willis Harold Booth) / Feb 1936 / Party for to-be's at fun house
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12763
ark:/21198/zz002hmtsv
Subject: Parties--California--Los Angeles
Socialites--California--Los Angeles
Booth, Willis Harold, 1913-1986
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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