The Fanchon and Marco Girls, a vaudeville troupe, pose next to a cascading fountain in Monterey Park in 1930. Built originally as part of the Midwick View Estates housing development, the fountain today is part of Cascades Park. Here’s a present-day Google Street View of the same location: http://goo.gl/maps/UabRs
This is one of more than 30,000 photos from our “Dick” Whittington Collection that we’ve recently digitized with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: http://bit.ly/nehwhittington