Genre: cellulose nitrate film and bird's-eye views / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Disaster - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Bird's-eye view of crashed street car at First and Hill Streets, with hill in foreground, police officers and crowd gathered at intersection in midground, buildings, parking lot, and billboards in background
Date:: February 8, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, December 10, 1938, Three Buildings Destroyed by Explosion and Blaze. An unexplained explosion and fire early yesterday destroyed a restaurant, garage, service station and a tank-truck and trailer at Slauson and Boyle Aves. ...
Date:: December 9, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Harnett, Andrew
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, February 9, 1937, Eight Persons Injured When Street Car Runs Wild on First Street Grade. … brakes on the street car failed to work as it descended steep First-street slope west of Hill street. … Eight persons were injured as the heavy vehicle smashed through the barrier at bottom of hill, careened across busy thoroughfare, crushed a small brick restaurant on the corner, mangled two automobiles and half tipped over against another light pole before stopping. …
Date:: February 8, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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