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. Detective Lieutenant Landers takes notes on a pad while looking at Neftal Pratt, wearing her waitressing uniform and balancing a glass of water in one hand. An unknown bandit held up President of the Gold Star Mothers of LA Elizabeth Harrison on her way to her car after she finished her lunch at Scully's Café, where he had been watching her. He had left a ten cent tip for his waitress, Neftal Pratt. Photograph appears with the article, "Café Gunman Dines and Robs," Los Angeles Times, 04 Jan 1939: 12. Text from negative sleeve: 15336 - Det. Lieut. J.G. Landers Neftal Pratt (waitress) Restaurant Holdup. Scully's café robbery [stamped:] Jan 18 1939 Handwritten on negative: DT. Lieut. J G Sanders Neftal Pratt Text from newspaper caption: Neftal Pratt, waitress at Crenshaw Ave. café, explains to Officer J. G. Landers the good service she rendered bandit who later took the establishment's cash.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14745 ark:/21198/zz002j8d03
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Robberies--California--Los Angeles Police--California--Los Angeles Waitresses--California--Los Angeles Pratt, Neftal Landers, John G., b. 1898 or 99-1960
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