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Order Number	00059446
Title	Taxicab strike
Photographer	Courtney, Tom.
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 3042
Date	1956
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	Yellow Cab strikers enjoy themselves as they picket before the Company's Division 5 headquarters in North Hollywood. Jodi Barker (16, left) and Jean Pester (right) serve coffeee and cake to cabbie George Ditzler who is sitting in the wheel chair. Cabbie Melvin Ash stands behind Ditzler and the cabbie with a big bow tie, leaning on a TV, is Jack Sparks, a cowboy movie actor. Signs read: "Mr. Wooster, the only thing yellow about a cab driver is the hat he wear's [sic]" and "I wonder where the yellow went, went on strike to pay the rent". Photo dated: Aug. 4, 1956.
Subject	Teamsters Union Local 640 (Los Angeles, Calif.). Yellow Cab Company. Strikes and lockouts--Taxicabs--California--Los Angeles. Taxicabs--California--Los Angeles. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection