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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Forrest Whitaker's Ford and hitched trailer parked near Paradise Camp at the foot of the Sherwin Grade on the return trip to Los Angeles from Rock Creek. The car (partial view) is parked at right and faces right. The trailer sits hitched behind it at center. Forrest Whitaker faces towards the camera while standing behind the far corner of the trailer. Behind and to the left of the trailer, a building for Paradise Camp stands with a car parked in front of it. The sign over the building's roof reads, "PARADISE CAMP ONE MILE HIGH GENE CROSBY." A gas station (partial view) stands to the right of the Forrest Whitaker's Ford. A few pumps stand obscured behind his car. A sign hangs down from the eave, it reads, "WORMS FOR SALE 50¢ per 100." A road or drive stretches along the left side of the image. Trees stand in the background behind the Paradise Camp building. Text from negative sleeve: 873. Rock Creek trip 1941. Paradise Camp, at foot of the Sherwin Grade, on the way home. Our car and trailer.
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