Excavation event at the Fort Moore Hill entrance to the Broadway Tunnel, Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Excavation event at the Fort Moore Hill entrance to the Broadway Tunnel, Los Angeles, 1934

Date Created

1934

Date

1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

English

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

View towards the Broadway Tunnel and Fort Moore Hill from the intersection of Spring Street from the intersection with Sunset Blvd. (now Cesar Chavez Avenue). At the base of the hill a group of people gather around Myers & Co. On a platform cordoned off with a stars and stripes fabric the group of men includes Mayor Frank L. Shaw, and another man speaks into a microphone. Signs read "Myers & Co., Excavating Contractors, MU.6306". A billboard advertisement for the movie "Tarzan and his Mate" dates the photograph to 1934. A second billboard reads "No extra cost for Tetraethyl, the higher anti-knock Leader". A sign on a large house on top of the hill, known as the Banning Mansion, reads "Apartments".

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles County Buildings

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
Myers & Co.

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.058261

Latitude

-118.239413

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Fort Moore Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Steam shovels
Broadway Tunnel (Los Angeles, Calif.)