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

Description:: View of a living room filled with mud up to the window sills after a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October). The dark area on the wall and windows indicates the top line of the receded flood waters.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Three men conversing in a hospital room possibly in relation to the Montrose-La Crescenta catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October).
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to the article, "Gales sweep three southland areas; high seas peril yacht off newport: OIL DERRICKS WRECKED BY HEAVY BLOW storm injures six persons tornado-like winds tear through torrance, alhambra and long beach," Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 1936: 1
Date:: [circa February 12, 1936]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A similar stand alone photograph appears with the caption: Primitive Transportation Revived After Flood: The 1934 Model Water Wagon; The precious fluid is carried by burros to the workers in flooded La Crescenta area [Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 1934].
Date:: January 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:: This is likely the man reported perished in the Bohemian Gardens area in the article "Thirty-Seven ON Death Lost In Record 8.27-Inch Deluge: Upward of Thirty-five Injured During Downpour; Thousands of Men Put to Work Removing Wreckage Left in Wake of Torrents," Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 1934: 1
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a stone house gutted by a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October). Four men, three women and a dog are in front of the house, and a boy stands next to the chimney on the left. The area around the house is littered with large rocks and mud indicating the movements of the flood current.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the pitched roof of a house that was destroyed by a mudslide and flood following heavy rains (in either January or October). It is not possible to tell if the house is buried in the mud below the roof line or if the roof became detached from the house. There appears to be a jet of water streaming out of the ground.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the walls of a destroyed house resting on a telephone pole following a catastrophic flood (in either January or October). A standing house is visible on the high ridge in the background.
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

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