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Title
Personality of the week
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1950
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
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated October 6, 1950 partially reads "Jack Ridgley (Proprietor of the Halo). Jack is twenty-nine years old and unmarried. He came to California in 1926 and is a graduate of Los Angeles High. Family now lives in Burbank. A World War II veteran, he was a general contractor for four years in the Valley before he obtained the Halo." The Halo, a restaurant and cocktail lounge, is located at 3116 West Magnolia Boulevard in Burbank.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;13 x 6 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00136728
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d043_f37_i2
CARL0005638964
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/66580
Subject
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Restaurateurs--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Businessmen--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
World War, 1939-1945--Veterans
Veterans--United States
Tobacco pipes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Smoking--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1941-1950

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