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Title: Officer's use sledge hammer to open doors
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
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: Using a sledge hammer as their "membership card," officers are shown smashing in the door at the Casanova Club in the big after-midnight raid on four swank Hollywood night spots. Seventeen men were nabbed. Photo dated: January 29, 1941.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049956
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9126.
CARL0000054107
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17995
Subject: Casanova Club (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Nightclubs--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Liquors--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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