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Title: Confiscated slot machines pounded into pieces
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
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: "One-armed bandits," 833 of them, found their just reward today in a Los Angeles junk heap. Slot machines seized in a raid on a warehouse, are shown being pounded to pieces by a huge steel ball dropped from an overhead crane. Photo dated: October 4, 1939.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039525
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.
CARL0000042574
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12192
Subject: Gambling--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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