Meeting for the residents of Riverside Drive, who were affected by the Elysian Park landslide, Los Angeles, November 1937

Title: Meeting for the residents of Riverside Drive, who were affected by the Elysian Park landslide, Los Angeles, November 1937
Date Created: November 1937
Date: 1937-11
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Town meeting for residents of Riverside Drive, whose lives were affected when a landslide occurred in Elysian Park, behind their homes. A fissure had been slowly growing on Buena Vista Peak in the park for about a week until it finally ripped open and dumped 1,500,000 tons of dirt and rock down the slope and onto Riverside Drive. The debris covered 600 feet of Riverside Drive, forcing traffic to be rerouted and attracting thousands of spectators from as far away as New York. Because the crack had been identified early on, damage and injuries were largely avoided
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Mass meeting Riverside Dr. residents
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Mass meeting of Riverside Drive residents, affected by Elysian Park landslide

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Events
Landslides--California--Los Angeles
Disaster victims--California--Los Angeles
Town meetings--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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