A one-man trolley bounded off the tracks and crashed through the plate-glass window and door of a beer parlor on Venice and Burlington. Five were injured and sent to the hospital, including the conductor.
A one-man trolley bounded off the tracks and crashed through the plate-glass window and door of a beer parlor on Venice and Burlington. Five were injured and sent to the hospital, including the conductor.
A one-man trolley bounded off the tracks and crashed through the plate-glass window and door of a beer parlor on Venice and Burlington. Five were injured and sent to the hospital, including the conductor.
Another photograph of the store taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “One-Man Electric Car Runs Into Beer Parlor,” Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 1936: 9.
At left, Chas Whitney sits up in his hospital bed. His head is bandaged just above his right eye. He looks down towards a shoe he holds in his hands. Beside him, nurse William J. Pearce stands in profile, facing left. He too looks down towards the show that Chas Whitney holds.
When baby Richard Burt was left alone in the car to play he found one of his father's .22 caliber cartridges in the side-pocket of the car and pushed the cartridge against the electrical contact points in the empty dash-light socket, which caused it to explode, but only injuring Richard's finger with some powder burns. The bullet from the shell had been melted.
Related to the article "Two Killed In Air Crash: Biplane Dives to Earth. Pilot and HIs Passenger Burned to Death in Wrecked Craft," Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 1935: A1