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Title: Officers with gambling equipment seized
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Deputy Sheriff Contreras is shown above at right, with Deputy Sheriff Walter Hunter, looking over some of the gambling equipment seized in the raids. The Old Colony Club, the Clover Club and the Club La Boheme were raided by the formally attired officers. Many motion picture celebrities fled from the fashionable resorts when the officers started to dismantle roulette and card tables. Seven men from the Old Colony Club pleaded guilty to conducting gambling and were fined $100 each. Photo dated: January 28, 1934.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039604
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1065.; HE-002-024 4x5
CARL0000043258
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15158
Subject: Gambling--California--Los Angeles
Gambling and crime--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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