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[ New Search ] Speed Burner Location : Oakland, CA Date : May 4, 1940 Agency : NYA Credits : Rondal Partridge (Photographer) Owner : NARA (SPB) Medium : B&W Photo Control Number : RG 119-CAL-6-165 Enlarged Image Description : The speed burner owner of a cut-down, souped-up car, this youth is a high school graduate who had become a hanger-on around the school premises... "He went downtown this morning and said he was going to work, but I don't see how he makes any money when he comes back at eleven o'clock. Gee, you oughta see him burn up the corners"--student bystander. Listed Under: [Photo Series][NYA Photoessays of Rondal Partridge][High School Youth]