Earthquake-damaged Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Earthquake-damaged Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, 1933

Date Created

March 1933

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
View of the Huntington Hotel damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, with rubble flowing down an exterior stairway. Two men are at the bottom of the stairway, 2 men stand on the banister on either side and 2 men stand at the top of the stairway. The hotel (built in 1907, located at 1401 South Oak Knoll) was repaired and in use until 1989 when it was torn down.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Earthquake damage--California--Pasadena
Hotels--California--Pasadena
Earthquakes--California--Pasadena

Names

Huntington Hotel (Pasadena, Calif.)

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Longitude

34.120284

Latitude

-118.133496

Resource type

still image