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. Jackson G. Shadle was a member of the Screen Actors' Guild. Shadle swings a massive lasso as he stands outside of a shed-like building. Photograph appears with the article, "Sepulveda Blvd. Squatter Faces Federal Ouster Action," Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec 1938: 2. The property measures as being 2000 feet long with a width ranging from about 60 feet at the wide end to less than a foot at the other. Shadle has been all over America with Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show and the Sells-Floto Circus and threatens to use his professional lassoing skills if he is forcibly removed. Text from negative sleeve: 15309 - Jackson G. Shadle (squatter) + former circus performer (claims entitlement to part of Wilshire/Sepulv/veteran land) 12-30-38 [stamped:] Jan 13 1939 Text from newspaper caption: Jack Shadle, who claims title to his Sepulveda Blvd. home under the California Squatters Law, faces ouster action by the Federal government, which wants his acre and an eighth added to the National Military Home reservation. At left he is practicing on his homemade violin-cello. At right he is in fighting mood. With his lariat, he says, he will stand off the marshals if and when they come to oust him.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14734 ark:/21198/zz002j8cmx
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Squatters--California--Los Angeles Circus performers Roping--California--Los Angeles Shadle, Jackson G. Jackson Garner, 1882-1969
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