C. A. Holzer and H. W. Beck watch as Mayor Porter places the call to New York to initiate coast-to-coast flights, Los Angeles, 1932

Title: C. A. Holzer and H. W. Beck watch as Mayor Porter places the call to New York to initiate coast-to-coast flights, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created: November 5, 1932
Date: 1932-11-05
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: C. A. Holzer (superintendent of the Postal Telegraph Company) and H. W. Beck (TWA Traffic Manager) watch as Mayor John C. Porter places the call from his City Hall office to New York to initiate coast-to-coast flights.
Harris W. Beck: assistant general traffic master
Photograph appears with the article, "Mayor Opens Fast Air Service. Order Starts T.-W.A. Ship From East," Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 1932: 14.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Beck, H. W. TWA.
Text from newspaper caption: One-Day Coast-to-Coast Flights Inaugurated. Left to right--C. A. Holzer, H. W. Beck and Mayor Porter, as letter gives order at City Hall here that starts air liner on way from New York to Los Angeles.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Porter, John C. (John Clinton), 1871-1959
Trans World Airlines
Holzer, C. A. (Charles Adolph), 1878-1960
Beck, Harris W. (Harris Walton), 1890-1971
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.0536
Latitude: -118.243
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Air travel
Mayors--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_1084
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dbgh2
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