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 Arcadia funds. Ford sits at a table holding several charts and maps. Weatherman Bill Ford has a record of being 90% right in his forecasts and during his 28 years in working for the city has served as city marshal, Chief of Police, license collector and sanitary inspector in addition to weather forecaster. Photograph appears with the article, "Holder of Many Jobs Also Weather Expert," Los Angeles Times, 04 May 1936: 16. Text from newspaper caption: Bill Ford of Huntington Park is the city's oldest employee in point of service and in twenty-eight years has served in many capacities. But his favorite avocation is predicting the weather. He is shown here poring over fifty-year-old weather records. He insists, however, that the birds also furnish valuable hints in the making of rainfall prognostications. Text from negative sleeve: 5145 - Bill Ford of Huntington Park is the city's oldest employee in point of service and in twenty-eight years has served in many capacities. But his favorite avocation is predicting the weather. He is shown here poring over fifty-year-old weather records. He insists, however, that the birds also furnish valuable hints in the making of rainfall prognostications. 5-6-36 [stamped:] May 5 1936 Handwritten on negative: Bill Ford
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14231 ark:/21198/zz002j7s83
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Maps Government employees--California--Glendale Ford, Bill
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