La Luz de Watts and other stores on 103rd St. after the Long Beach earthquake, Watts (Los Angeles), 1933

Title: La Luz de Watts and other stores on 103rd St. after the Long Beach earthquake, Watts (Los Angeles), 1933
Date Created: March 1933
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: View of 103rd St., a commercial street in Watts, after the Long Beach earthquake. Businesses include Coney Island Red Hots, La Luz de Watts Grocery at 1836, La Estrella Tienda Mexicana
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
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Earthquakes, Long Beach, 1933

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Earthquakes--California--Los Angeles
Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 33.943162
Latitude: -118.240218
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_2127
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dd292
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