Vol. 1
No. 1

Page 6


TABLOID PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE LOS ANGELES HERALD EXPRESS
(1936-1961)

The first Fourth of July celebration after WWII finds many people sleeping on the beach or in their cars.

Garden Revel, at Marion Davies' Benedict Canyon home, features starlets as Dime a Dance Glamour Girls in wartime benefit open to the public.

Members of the Junior Army line up to donate any kind of rubber for the war effort: big and small tires, tennis shoes, rubber hoses, etc. Some 30,000 Junior Army members aid in the drive.

With war sentiments growing, Japanese nationals board busses to take them to San Francisco where they will board the S.S. Tatuta Maru to sail “reluctantly and unwillingly” back to Japan. Photograph is dated Oct. 1941, 2 months before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Young Japanese girls brave the early morning rain to bid farewell to friends leaving for Manzanar relocation camp.

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