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Title: Miss Motorcycle of 1961
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Woods, Jon
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: 1961
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 article dated November 14, 1961 partially reads, "Sandra Hirst came home to Panorama City Friday night tightly clutching a gleaming trophy. She's 'Miss Motorcycle of 1961...' Sandra, 16, was nominated for the beauty contest by the Checkers Motorcycle Club of Glendale. She was chosen after the final race Friday at Ascot Stadium, Gardena. Sandra is a junior at James Monroe High School, Sepulveda, and lives at 8326 Bardwell Ave., Panorama City."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00127318
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d032_f31_i7
CARL0005439486
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/58871
Subject: Beauty contestants--California--San Fernando Valley
Teenage girls--California--San Fernando Valley
High school students--California--San Fernando Valley
Motorcycles--California--San Fernando Valley
Triumph motorcycle
San Fernando Valley (Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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