[See America First] 1931

“SEE AMERICA FIRST.” Actress Kay Gordon visits Oakland, California and is welcomed at airport. She then visits various businesses located in Oakland, including: Oakland Tribune newspaper; Cutter Bear; Lake Merritt; Paramount Beauty Salon; Bulwinkle’s Furs (woman models fur coat); American Trust
Company (bank interior); Dr. Bullis, chiropractor; Clarence Saunders Stores; Heald’s Business College; Oakland Zoo; Remar Baking Company; Jackson’s Furniture Company; Clean Cleaners; Carol Will’s Shoe Shop; and McGurrin Motors (sellers of the Reo Royale automobile; woman helped into a 1931 Reo for a test drive). Film also contains good shots of (what could read as) a wealthy woman helped into limousine by driver.

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