Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Language: English / Location: California, Southern / Subject: Earthquake damage--California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View towards the Aranbe Hotel, heavily damaged by the Long Beach earthquake. The exterior walls are missing and the street is full of rubble. A power shovel is scooping up the debris for 2 waiting dump trucks. Signs on the power shovel and dump trucks read "Owl Truck & Materials Co." In the foreground, a lone man sweeps the street with a push broom.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a brick commercial building that lost most of its facade during the Long Beach earthquake. The sidewalk in front of the building is covered with brick rubble, one automobile is parked in front and 4 men are walking in the street in front of the building. Two cars are parked beyond a doorway on the right side of the building and a man stands next to one of the cars. A hand-rendered sign in front of the building read: "Open Now For Business - Side Entrance. Notice - Same Old Prices. No Advances. Entrance on Side."s
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Men gathered near trucks and brick rubble piles between trucks and next to building that lost its facade during the Long Beach earthquake. The sing on one truck reads "Owl Truck and Materials Co."
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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