{"id":3292,"date":"2025-02-24T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:56:46","slug":"rooftop-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2025\/02\/24\/rooftop-boxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooftop Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by Reinhard Kargl<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"790\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Women_boxing_on_a_roof_1938_1-1024x790.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Women_boxing_on_a_roof_1938_1-1024x790.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Women_boxing_on_a_roof_1938_1-400x309.jpg 400w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Women_boxing_on_a_roof_1938_1-768x593.jpg 768w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Women_boxing_on_a_roof_1938_1-1536x1186.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Women_boxing_on_a_roof_1938_1-624x482.jpg 624w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Women_boxing_on_a_roof_1938_1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Library of Congress, photographer unknown).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Few details about this photograph can be substantiated. The original caption was supposedly \u201cRadio Pictures Chorus Girls\u201c. This might have been a reference to RKO Radio Pictures Inc., which operated from 1929 to 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"254\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RadioKeithOrpheum.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3295\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The girls were almost certainly entertainers who were photographed while having fun exercising on a Hollywood rooftop &#8212; possibly in 1938. The automobiles in the background were likely built in the 1920s and 1930s, and the boxing scene was obviously posed for the photographer. (If you can identify the street address or know any of the girls in the image, I&#8217;d love to hear from you!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RKO-Studios-ca.-1937.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RKO-Studios-ca.-1937.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RKO-Studios-ca.-1937-400x270.jpg 400w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RKO-Studios-ca.-1937-768x518.jpg 768w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RKO-Studios-ca.-1937-624x420.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>RKO Studios at Melrose Avenue and Gower Street, Hollywood, circa 1937.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"772\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RKO_Radio_Pictures_transmitter_ident-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3294\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RKO_Radio_Pictures_transmitter_ident-1024x772.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RKO_Radio_Pictures_transmitter_ident-400x302.jpg 400w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RKO_Radio_Pictures_transmitter_ident-768x579.jpg 768w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RKO_Radio_Pictures_transmitter_ident-624x471.jpg 624w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/RKO_Radio_Pictures_transmitter_ident.jpg 1432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\"><h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3442\">Cover of LIFE Magazine, 1941<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3422\">Christmas At Hollywood And Vine<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3404\">The Ugly Broad<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3372\">70 Years Ago<\/a><\/li><li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3348\">The La Monica Ballroom (1924 &#8211; 1963)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Reinhard Kargl (Library of Congress, photographer unknown). Few details about this photograph can be substantiated. The original caption was supposedly \u201cRadio Pictures Chorus Girls\u201c. This might have been a reference to RKO Radio Pictures Inc., which operated from 1929 to 1959. The girls were almost certainly entertainers who were photographed while having fun exercising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,31,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america-english","category-history","category-photojournalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}