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German crew defeats Italian crew by one foot in the four-oared boats with cockswain race in the Long Beach marine stadium during the 1932 Olympic Games.

Winners in the Evening Herald and Express 14th annual model yacht regatta held on Echo Park lake. Regatta drew some 500 contestants.

A group of dejected surfers sit by their boards because the waves at Surfriders' State Beach, near Malibu, are not large enough for surfing.

Left to right, Dickie Dell Doheny, Mr. Van C. Niven, Mrs. Nathan Marshall and Miss Frances Callaghan, members of society, at the 1936 USC-UCLA football game.

Paul Trousdale, developer of the Trousdale Estates, and his family on vacation at the Hotel del Coronado.

Babe Ruth, the “home run king,” receives royal welcome from children at the Marion Davies Clinic for children of World War veterans. Ruth plays in baseball games for charity to benefit the clinic.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hicks Gross, “scion of a pioneer family,” presided as queen of La Fiesta de Los Angeles, a 10-day celebration of the city's 150th anniversary that “engulfed the city in a whirlwind of parades, pageants, balls, concerts, operas, and far surpassing the famous celebrations of cities throughout the world.”

Mary Lou Wadell (on throne) queen of the 1931 Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, with clergy.

The Manhattan Beach entry, a giant starfish, in the 1938 Rose Parade--the theme was: Playland Fantasies.