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We Saw Long Lines, They Got Bathing Suits
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Dan Carino
)
Nov 8, 2008
We Saw Long Lines, They Got Bathing Suits
Enlarge the photo to see why this woman is voting in a bathing suit.
Numerous voters, desiring to spend the holiday at the beaches, dropped into their polling places clad in bathing suits on August 26, 1930. Here is Mrs. Lucile Wheat."
Numerous voters, desiring to spend the holiday at the beaches, dropped into their polling places clad in bathing suits on August 26, 1930. Here is Mrs. Lucile Wheat."
(
LA Public Library/Herald-Examiner collection
)

Enlarge the photo to see why this woman is voting in a bathing suit.

Enlarge the photo to see why this woman is voting in a bathing suit.