Flooding and mudslide damage in the La Crescenta-Montrose area, 1934

Description: Negative misfiled with 1934 Rose Parade photographs. Likely related to flooding that year in the Crescenta Valley region.
Mudslide area with people surveying damage to roadways. A number of cars are visible, as well as a bus with a destination sign reading "Montrose." Large boulders, tree trunks, and damaged pipes are also visible.
In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. Two floods followed the next year. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless. Another rainstorm on October 17 caused additional flooding and damage, but no deaths.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Floods, Montrose, 1934

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