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History

Photo by PPAGLA Board Member, Jim Caccavo

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1939 PPAGLA Photography Exhibition

Special thanks to Scott Harrison

April 21, 1939: Irene Rich, a screen actress, presents Times photographer Andrew Hugh Arnott with the first prize in ceremonies at the Los Angeles Press Photographers’ Association photo exhibit. Standing behind Arnott are Felix Paegel, J. H. McCory, and Robert A. Jakobsen. This photo appeared in the April 22, 1939, Los Angeles Times. The exhibit consisted of 700 news photographs taken around Los Angeles in 1938. According to the April 24, 1939, Los Angeles Times, 5000 people attended the three-day exhibit.

April 21, 1939: Irene Rich, a screen actress, presents Times photographer Andrew Hugh Arnott with the first prize in ceremonies at the Los Angeles Press Photographers’ Association photo exhibit. Standing behind Arnott are Felix Paegel, J. H. McCory, and Robert A. Jakobsen. This photo appeared in the April 22, 1939, Los Angeles Times. 

The exhibit consisted of 700 news photographs taken around Los Angeles in 1938. According to the April 24, 1939, Los Angeles Times, 5000 people attended the three-day exhibit.

L.A. Times Photo Staff (circa 1966)

Back Row, Left to Right:Nelson Tiffany; Joe Kennedy; Mary Frampton; Gordon Wallace; Ray Graham; John Malmin; Dick Oliver; Don Cormier; Steve Fontanini; Wayne Kelly (Chief Photographer); Bruce Cox; Jack Gaunt; and Gene Hackman. Front Row, Left to Right:Jack Carrick; Charles O’Rear; Frank Brown; Harry Chase; Judd Gunderson (Lab Tech); Art Rogers; and Larry Sharkey.

Back Row, Left to Right:

Nelson Tiffany; Joe Kennedy; Mary Frampton; Gordon Wallace; Ray Graham; John Malmin; Dick Oliver; Don Cormier; Steve Fontanini; Wayne Kelly (Chief Photographer); Bruce Cox; Jack Gaunt; and Gene Hackman.


Front Row, Left to Right:

Jack Carrick; Charles O’Rear; Frank Brown; Harry Chase; Judd Gunderson (Lab Tech); Art Rogers; and Larry Sharkey.

Shirley Temple turns the tables on members of the Hollywood Press Photographers Association

Special thanks to Scott Harrison

Child actress Shirley Temple turns the tables on members of the Hollywood Press Photographers Association. According to a similar wire photo in Sep. 22, 1936, Decatur Herald, the caption reported Temple saying, "This time, I'll do the shooting,"

Temple posed for news photographers to promote the upcoming Hollywood Press Photographers Association Flashlighters' Ball on Oct. 7, 1936. Over 1,500 celebrities and guests attended The Flashlighters Ball at the Biltmore Hotel.

In 1936, George Watson, the Acme News Pictures Syndicate manager, and Howard DeCoursy, International News Pictures manager, formed the Hollywood Press Photographers Association. This forerunner of the current PPAGLA started with 24 members.

Photo by George Watson appeared in the 1959 Just One More Annual yearbook.

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Photo by George Watson appeared in the 1959 Just One More Annual yearbook.

Photo by George Watson appeared in the 1959 Just One More Annual yearbook.

PPAGLA 1955 President, Sam Greenwald (R) with legendary movie director Cecil B. DeMill

PPAGLA 1955 President, Sam Greenwald (R) with legendary movie director Cecil B. DeMill

Images by Joanna Matos, PPAGLA Past President

Special thanks to PPAGLA Secretary & Historian, Bonnie Burrow, for assembling the collection of images below.

The following Huell Howser video shows how an idea that started with PPAGLA’s first president, George Watson, became a cultural and physical landmark with the installation of the Lindberg Beacon on the top of City Hall in 1928 and what became of it in the years that passed.