Men and trucks gathered on a muddy commercial street after a devastating flood, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Men and trucks gathered on a muddy commercial street after a devastating flood, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Date Created

1934

Date

1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. Two floods followed the next year. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless. Another rainstorm on October 17 caused additional flooding and damage, but no deaths and damage, but no deaths.
View of men and trucks gathered on a muddy commercial street after a devastating flood (in either January or October). Two men on the right are in uniform, 2 men in the middle-ground shovel mud into a dump truck, and others are working behind them. Boulders are gathered at the side of the road on the left. Signs on commercial buildings read "Crescenta-Cañada National Bank," "Inter-Valley Building & Loan Association," and "Evans Garage."

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Floods, LA. Crescenta

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Disaster relief--California--La Crescenta-Montrose