Commercial street flooded during or after a heavy rainstorm, Los Angeles County, 1927

Title: Commercial street flooded during or after a heavy rainstorm, Los Angeles County, 1927
Date Created: February 1927
Date: 1927-02
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: View of a commercial street flooded, possibly by the Los Angeles River, during or after a heavy rainstorm. Three men are raising the level of a tarp-covered truck with a wooden beam used as a lever in the middle of the street. Another truck with 2 kerosene lamps perched on it is on the right and sections of large pipe are on the side of the street on the far right. A pile of dirt is behind the truck. Signs on and around the commercial buildings read "United States Tires, Sales & Service Depot, Lloyds Service Station," "Quaker State Motor Oil," "Gilmore Gasoline," "Sanitary Kitchen, C. Soper..,...Ice Cream," "Radio Shop, Hardware," and "S. C. Weaver Const. Co."
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Floods, L.A. River

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Floods--California--Los Angeles County
Storms--California--Los Angeles County

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2449
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002ddfdx
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Rights Country: US
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