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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A shaky photograph of Vincent Loos standing over a table and helping to prepare barbecue at the Rubber Men's Picnic in Santa Monica Canyon. A table juts into the image from the right. Vincent Loos stands, leftof-center, to the left of the table's corner. He wears an apron and faces towards the right. Vincent hunches over a tray of meat that sits on the table. Cooking trays and utensils sit atop the table. Sacks, crates and pots sit on the ground beneath the table and next to Vincent. Another person stands behind and to the left of Vincent, along the left edge of the image and mostly out-of-frame. A tree branch hangs down from the upper left corner. A canyon wall stretches across the background on an angle towards the right. Text from negative sleeve: 1242. Santa Monica Canyon, about 1908. Rubber Mens picnic. 1. Jim Jeffries eating with us. At Jim's right hand is Webb Brain. At Jim's left hand is Bill Newerf, Goodyear agent. Back of Newerf is George Crackel, then with the Goodrich Tire Co. 2. Beer keg on the Water Wagon. Can't know identify the fellows. 3. Vincent Loos, of John T.Bill Co. helping with the barbecue. 4. Leon T. Shettler, with cigar, turing [sic] to look at the camera. 5. Mel Nordlinger in shirt sleeves. Other fellow with badge unknown now. 6. One of the cloth signs among the trees. 6 films.
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