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Title: Ritzy gambling palace raided by police
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Vice squad officers staged a raid and broke up a party at a ritzy mansion at 5667 West Olympic Boulevard. Thirteen men and four women were arrested on gambling charges. Swank crowd was playing for stakes "that could run as high as $150,000," police reported. Equipment was valued at $15,000. Photo dated: April 30, 1949.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039595
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.
CARL0000043249
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15148
Subject: Gambling--California--Los Angeles
Gambling and crime--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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