Fred Happy Meyers and former Ann Campbell at their wedding at the San Diego Expo, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Fred Happy Meyers and former Ann Campbell at their wedding at the San Diego Expo, 1935

Date Created

September 4, 1935

Date

1935-09-04

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with the article, "Bridegroom in Group Escaping Sea Death." Los Angeles Times, 6 Sept. 1935.
View of Fred Meyers standing in bowtie and tuxedo, arms around new wife, former Ann Campbell, standing in flower headdress with veil, and wedding dress. The couple was married onstage during "The Drunkard" performance at the San Diego Expo. Fred Meyers, a barker for the Gold Gulch at the San Diego expo, was rescued from a disabled craft off Coronado Islands along with other passengers only a few days after his wedding, as reported in the Los Angeles Times, 9/6/1935, "Bridegroom in Group Escaping Sea Death."

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2145, Fred Happy Meyers & Bride (Ann Campbell), Gold Gulch performers (San Diego Expo), Sept/4/35, [stamped:] Sep 1935
Text from newspaper caption: Fred Meyers, barker for a Gold Gulch show at the San Diego Exposition, shown with bride, former Ann Campbell, actress, whom he married last Thursday in a public wedding on the stage at "The Drunkard." Meyers was one of seven rescued yesterday from periled fishing boat
Handwritten on negative: Fred (Happy) Meyers & Bride, Sept/4/35

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

California Pacific International Exposition (1935-1936 : San Diego, Calif.)
Meyers, Fred Happy
Meyers, Ann

Location

San Diego (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Weddings--California--San Diego
Wedding clothing & dress
Lifestyle
People
Newlyweds--California--San Diego