American Legion Hall damaged by the January flood and mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Title: American Legion Hall damaged by the January flood and mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
Date Created: January 1934
Date: 1934-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: View of the American Legion Hall, damaged by the January flood and mudslide. Window panes are missing. A man is standing to the right of the building. The mudslide crashed into the back of the building and filled it with mud and rocks. Twenty-five people had taken refuge in hall when the flood took out the wall. The building was located at the intersection of Fairway Ave. and Rosemont Ave.
Related to the article "Thirty-Seven On Death List In Record 8.27-Inch Deluge: Upward of Thirty-five Injured During Downpour; Thousands of Men put to Work Removing Wreckage Left in Wake of Torrents," Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 1934: 1
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.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Floods, Bohemian Gardens [handwritten:] ? [location identification is not correct]

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: American Legion. Post 288 (La Crescenta-Montrose, Calif..)
Location: La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.21394
Latitude: -118.235195
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Landslides--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2415
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ddd7v
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