Tony Cornero on the deck of his newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946
Item Overview
- Title
- Tony Cornero on the deck of his newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill or Lux, Los Angeles, 1946
- Date Created
- August 9, 1946
- Date
- 1946-08-09
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Tony Cornero on the deck of his newly refurbished gambling ship, the Bunker Hill (also known as the Lux), which was meant to operate offshore of Los Angeles. After the Bunker Hill’s opening night, however, Cornero and five of his aides were arrested on felony charges of criminal conspiracy to conduct gambling games and serve alcohol without a license. After his arrest, Cornero announced that he was ready to go to the United States Supreme court to keep the Bunker Hill running. Cornero was also “admiral” of the Rex, another gambling vessel which was forced to suspend operations in 1938.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Cornero, Tony (Anthony Stralla), 1900-
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Gambling--California--Los Angeles
People
Ships--American--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Transportation
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz00280ksh
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .