Remains of beach house along Pacific Coast Highway after Topanga fire, Los Angeles, 1938

Title: Remains of beach house along Pacific Coast Highway after Topanga fire, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created: [circa November 24, 1938]
Date: 1938-11-24
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Fires swept through Topanga Canyon and the Santa Monica mountains in late November of 1938 when ashes from an old cooking range scattered into nearby grass in Calabasas. Flames jumped the Pacific Coast Highway and burned several homes along the beach north of Santa Monica.
A similar images appears with the headline, “In the Wake of the Brush fire that Ravaged Area Around Topanga Canyon,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov 1938: 18.
A smiling woman stands beside a chimney and points at the molten debris below. The wooden stilts of the house are still standing.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 15198 1938 Topanga Malibu Fire 2

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Theodore Roosevelt International Highway
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Women
Beaches--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11908
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h8rsd
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Rights Country: US
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