Gambling and vice on Central Avenue, December 7, 1938

Posted on December 7, 2008 by lmharnisch
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France signs a friendship pact with the Nazis.

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Dine at Lucca, 5th and Western.

 Above, a group of African American leaders tells the Police Commission that gambling and prostitution are rampant in the black district along Central Avenue, but that crime leaders are under police protection because they supported Mayor Bowron’s election.

Grand jury testimony paints a portrait of corruption in the Frank Shaw administration. Retired Fire Battalion Chief Guy Kuykendall says he paid thousands of dollars to Joe Shaw and spent thousands more on political campaigns on behalf of men buying jobs with the police and fire departments.

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Paulette Goddard and an "unidentified girl from the East" are up for the lead in "Gone With the Wind."

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107 horses named to Santa Anita Handicap, including Seabiscuit
and Stagehand.

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