Capt. Noble Swanson, who was injured when a section of roof caved in during a fire at the Melody Lane Café on Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 1947

Title: Capt. Noble Swanson, who was injured when a section of roof caved in during a fire at the Melody Lane Café on Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 1947
Date Created: April 3, 1947
Date: 1947-04-03
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Fellow firefighter attends to Capt. Noble Swanson who was injured when a section of roof caved in during a fire at the Melody Lane Café on Wilshire Blvd. The fire began in the roof of the Melody Lane kitchen and high winds swept the blaze through neighboring businesses including the Pig’n Whistle candy and pastry shop, Randall Optometrist, McKiernan’s Fashions, Horton & Converse Pharmacy and Staber’s Beauty Salon. Noble suffered a back sprain, bruises and cuts. No one else was injured but total damage was estimated to exceed $200,000.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Swanson, Noble
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People
Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Disaster

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