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Title: Officer confiscates winnings
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: Vice squadders raided an alleged bingo parlor in Redondo Beach. Photo shows Capt. George Contreras of the Sheriff's Vice Squad and Redondo's Police Chief, Harry Peterson with one of the winners and one of the operators at the alleged bingo parlor. Woman's winnings were confiscated as evidence, to be returned to winner later. Patrons were allowed to go home, but operators were booked. Photo dated: September 10, 1940.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039666
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.
CARL0000043321
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15227
Subject: Gambling--California--Redondo Beach
Gambling and crime--California--Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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