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Title
Annual "Downtown Dollar Days" sale, view 3
Alternative Title
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1933
Publication Information
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
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
During the annual "Downtown Dollar Days" held every fall, shoppers were usually loaded down with packages from many of the Downtown Los Angeles stores, as seen here. View 3: A female shopper has so many packages that she can barely get through the entrance of the Pacific Electric streetcar. A train conductor tries to help her by taking her arm as she steps up onto the stairs. Photo dated: September 1, 1933.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00073952
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
N-003-917.3 4x5
CARL0000076333
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/114666
Subject
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Electric railroads--California--Los Angeles
Packaging--California--Los Angeles
Shopping--California--Los Angeles
Sales--California--Los Angeles

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