News crews and Chili Bowl truck outside a building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Item Overview

Title

News crews and Chili Bowl truck outside a building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake, Southern California, 1933

Date Created

March 1933
1933-03

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 a scene with a crowd of news reporters and others in front of a building damaged by the Long Beach earthquake with rubble on the ground next to it. The automobiles on the left have signs reading "News" (far left) and "Pathe News" on the windshields, the Pathe car has a motion picture camera and man on the roof and there is a camera on a tripod in front of the car. A woman in the center ladles chili into a bowl held by a man, a "Chili Bowl" truck is on the right, and a man in the foreground also holds a chili bowl. Men in the foreground are dressed in overalls, another man wears a white coat, and policemen are on the right.

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

Location

California, Southern

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Long Beach Earthquake, Calif., 1933
Photojournalists--California
Earthquakes--California