Subject: Landslides--California--La Crescenta-Montrose / Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. 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.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. 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.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A home in Montrose, located at 2629 Piedmont St., is damaged by the severe flooding in the Montrose/La Crescenta area. Items are left out to dry outside after the flood waters have receded, while a group of people stand nearby. Circa January 5, 1934.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. 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.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Four men look at a house with one side torn out and gutted by a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October). Two wooden beams support one corner of the house. A dry runoff channel with steep sides is next to the house and the adjacent ground is strewn with boulders left by the flood.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Crane on Honolulu Avenue near the intersection with Orangedale Avenue loading debris from a catastrophic flood and mudslide into a dump truck on a commercial street in La Crescenta-Montrose (after the January or October flood). A sign on a comercial building reads "D. J. Barrett, Shell." The Honolulu Grocery store is on the right.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Men clearing mud from a street in front of the "B. & M. Market" after a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October). Beside them is a dump truck with a signs reading "Chas Askew General trucking" and "No Riders."
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mudslide area with damaged homes in the background in the Montrose-La Crescenta (in either January or October)
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Storm runoff following a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October). The height of the banks indicates the size of the original torrent; a man is standing in the background.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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