On May 19, 1951 there was a holdup of a grocery store on Burbank and Van Nuys Bl.
The robbers were caught, booked and taken up the street to the jail in the Valley Municipal Building.
Two of the three suspects are pictured here, and are quite a handsome bunch: Samuel McGinnis; Charles Gordon; John Maroney.
John Maroney wears a tight white t-shirt tucked into unbelted jeans. Curly haired, brown-eyed, lean bodied, he had engaged in something stupid and could not have known how lucky he was to live in a time when the best selvedge loomed jeans were $3 and made in America. He could have worked as a house painter and bought a nice little ranch house around the corner with $500 down. He also wore his leather bomber jacket ($15?) in another photo.
His buddy (McGinnis?) is also a nice looking red haired guy in a wool camp shirt, finely tailored and elegant for an afternoon of armed robbery in Van Nuys. He looks almost like the son of the cop handcuffing him.
Source
Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961 (subcollection), Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)
Here in Van Nuys 
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