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Title: The chips are down
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: The chips were down and the jig was up for the luxurious Wilshire District casino, after police raided the place. Four men shown, were among 13 men and four women who were arrested in the raid. Sol Green, 32, was booked on charges of conducting games which included roulette and dice. "Aw, gimme a break," he assertedly pleaded. Photo dated: April 10, 1949.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046144
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065
CARL0000050473
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16452
Subject: Gambling--California--Los Angeles
Gambling and crime--California--Los Angeles
Craps (Game)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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