Archiving Angeles (AA): Police Dispatch

By Jason Burns
April 18th, 2008 @ 11:00 AM History

loretta.jpg

Loretta McCracken may not have been a police dispatcher or a radio operator. But, she was a girl with big dreams and a can-do attitude, and she ran a mean teletype. She was LAPD.

The year was 1965.

Photo from UCLA Library Digital Collections

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8 Comments so far

  1. laexpat April 18th, 2008 12:10 pm

    Love the hair! Teased until it cried.

  2. WILL•I•AM CAMPBELL (willcampbell)  April 18th, 2008 12:21 pm

    Dare I say it? That’s not a hair-do that’s a can-do!

  3. Will (Liam) Keightley (feverblue)  April 18th, 2008 2:11 pm

    I love these sorts of photos!

  4. colinski April 18th, 2008 2:23 pm

    That is some awesome hair.

  5. WILL•I•AM CAMPBELL (willcampbell)  April 18th, 2008 2:34 pm

    Dragnet Meets Aqua-Net!

  6. theuglyamerican April 18th, 2008 3:29 pm

    Looks like a movie still from Pink Flamingos.

  7. frazgo  April 18th, 2008 6:11 pm

    Love the ‘doo…I think they still do that big hair in Dallas

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