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Title
Raid on alleged bingo parlor
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1940
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
Interior view shows an alleged bingo parlor in Redondo Beach. Patrons are shown when they learned "the place is pinched" in the big night raid staged by Capt. George Contreras of the Sheriff's Vice Squad and Redondo's Police Chief, Harry Peterson. Patrons were allowed to go home, but operators were booked. Photo September 10, 1940.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00039510
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.
CARL0000042545
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12176
Subject
Gambling--California--Redondo Beach
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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