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Title: Valley gambling 'fortress' raided
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
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: 1950
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: Exterior view of the lavish, fort-like gambling house at 4063 Tujunga Ave., North Hollywood, into which vice squad men battered their way with sledge hammers to arrest two men. Police said the place had been especially reconstructed for gambling purposes. Photograph dated March 30, 1950.; See image #00135321 for additional photo in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00135322
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d042_f1_i2
CARL0005610269
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/65393
Subject: Gambling--United States
Arrest--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Tujunga Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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