Dr. Calvin B. Bridges with his newly designed automobile, Pasadena, 1936

Title: Dr. Calvin B. Bridges with his newly designed automobile, Pasadena, 1936
Date Created: April 17, 1936
Date: 1936-04-17
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Dr. Bridges stands beside his automobile resting an arm on the hood of the car positioned in front of a building that says Auto Repairing.
For two years Dr. Bridges would work for hours at the garage of 1110 North Fair Oaks Avenue on his "Lightning Bug", an automobile he claims to improve safety, economy and roadability.
Photograph appears with the article, "Crash-Proof Auto Ready," Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr 1936: A2.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4874 - Dr Calvin B Bridges of Cal-Tech and his automobile of the future 4/17/36 [stamped:] Apr 19 1936
Text from newspaper caption: This wreck-proof car will be on display at the California Institute of Technology today. Dr. Calvin B. Bridges, the designer, who is a nationally known biologist, has named his machine "The Lightning Bug."

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Bridges, Calvin Blackman, 1889-1938
California Institute of Technology
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.165099
Latitude: -118.150600
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Biologists--American--California--Pasadena
Automobiles--American--California--Pasadena

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14095
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7mkb
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