Crane with wrecking ball demolishing remains of collapsed San Bernardino Freeway bridge, Los Angeles, 1970

Item Overview

Title: Crane with wrecking ball demolishing remains of collapsed San Bernardino Freeway bridge, Los Angeles, 1970
Photographer: Malmin, John
Date Created: May 27, 1970
Date: 1970-05-27
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Caption: CLEANUP BEGINS--Crane swings steel ball as the task of removing 6 million pounds of steel and concrete rubble from collapsed freeway bridge gets under way. The half-completed span gave way Monday on transition road from the San Bernardino to San Gabriel River Freeway.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 35 mm.
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Interstate 605
Disaster
Bridge failures--California--Los Angeles County
Express highways--California--Los Angeles County--Design and construction
Environment
Transportation

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b652_263403-2
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002w1zs
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