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Los Angeles traffic cop/actor/chef Tom Jensen again, in the second photo of this exciting series, scanned by Shorpy member Cazzorla. View full size.
Healdsburg Tribune, Number 92, 20 February 1932:
What the letters mean on California motor vehicle licenses plates is a frequent question among motorists, observes the California State Automobile association, which gives the following explanation of the letter system.
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Automobile dealers’ cars, of course, are easily recognized by the letters “DLR” on the license plates.
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Can someone explain the purpose of that traffic button on the pavement? I find it difficult to imagine its function. Thanks for any information.
[Check out the other photo linked in the caption. -tterrace]
Although the traffic cop is the same, along with the identical DeVaux automobile, the location is now at West 24th Street and South Vermont Avenue.
The Barber Shop and Beauty Shop sign at the upper right shows the address of the business run by Frank A. (1890 - 1950) and Gladys Whitaker at 2322 S. Vermont Avenue.
Norman deVaux, one of the DeVaux company founders, was friends with Governor James Rolph of California. The governor sought to publicize the California motor industry. Consequently there are several newspapers articles where the text states specifically that the governor was riding or driven in a DeVaux (which had a factory in Oakland).
In a feature on the DeVaux Automobile in the March-April 1972 "Antique Automobile" hobby publication, Richard Larrowe stated, "Fifty new 1931 DeVaux cars that had been made specially for the factory opening, paraded through the streets of Oakland, headed by California's governor and the mayors of Oakland and San Francisco."
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