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Description:: View of rainstorm flooding facing north towards a house on Wilshire Boulevard at Mariposa Ave.
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of three automobiles and a truck stopped in flood water that almost reaches the tops of the wheels at the intersection of Eleventh and Vernon Avenues. Four men stand on two of the cars to get out of the water. They are in an area with open fields.
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A close-up view of the middle house was published with the caption: Flood Waters Following Unusual Downpour Cut Traffic Arteries. A front yard on Engledale [sic] Terrace on the north side of the raging Los Angeles River (Times photo.) [Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 1927: A3]
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A close-up view of the house on the left was published with the caption: Flood Waters Following Unusual Downpour Cut Traffic Arteries. A front yard on Engledale [sic] Terrace on the north side of the raging Los Angeles River (Times photo.) [Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 1927: A3]
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of houses on the Los Angeles River that were later washed away in a flood caused by a torrential rain storm. They were located next to the Glendale bridge, which was also washed out, in Atwater Village near Glendale.
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of flooding on Wilshire Boulevard between S. Mariposa Avenue and Normandie Ave. during a torrential rainstorm. The Wilshire Christian Church is visible on the right.
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the Pacific Electric Railway (or Red Car) bridge located near the Glendale bridge in Atwater Village during rainstorm flooding in the Los Angeles River
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Another similar photograph of 6th street during this storm is captioned: J. Pluvius Has Field Day With Los Angeles Traffic and Business. The outlying districts were not the only ones to feel the effects of the continuous downpour of the last few days. This photo at Sixth and Catalina streets in the heart of the apartment house district. (Photos by George R. Watson, Times Staff Photographer) [Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1927: 8]
Date:: February 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a storm-flooded residential neighborhood with 3 houses visible and more houses indicated behind them. Four men are in front of the houses standing on patches of ground elevated a bit above the flood line. Two men wear high boots, 2 wear shorts. One man is holding a long wooden plank, perhaps to be used as a walkway.
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A very similar photograph is captioned: J. Pluvius Has Field Day With Los Angeles Traffic and Business. Neighborhood business centers in a dozen different sections were isolated as a result of the downpour. Here is one of the districts cut off by the deluge. Photo taken at Sixth and Kenmore streets. (Photos by George R. Watson, Times Staff Photographer) [Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1927: 8].
Date:: February 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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