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

Description:: A man with a shovel clearing a path through mud to the doorway of a commercial building after a catastrophic mudslide (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. 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:: View of the American Legion Hall, damaged by the January flood and mudslide. Window panes are missing. A man is standing to the right of the building. The mudslide crashed into the back of the building and filled it with mud and rocks. Twenty-five people had taken refuge in hall when the flood took out the wall. The building was located at the intersection of Fairway Ave. and Rosemont Ave.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of bystanders outside of the American Legion Hall, damaged by flood and mudslide. Window panes are missing. The mudslide crashed into the back of the building and filled it with mud and rocks. Twenty-five people had taken refuge in hall when the flood took out the wall. The building was located at the intersection of Fairway Ave. and Rosemont Ave.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Residents at the Honolulu Grocery at the intersection of Orangedale Avenue and Honolulu Avenue after the October 17 flood. The walls of the grocery and the Auto Electrical buildings were pushed back by flood waters and mud.
Date:: October 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of 2 women standing next to a car trapped in mud from the flood and landslide resulting from a devastating rain storm. The car has been partially dug out from the mud. Another car and houses are in the background.
Date:: January 2, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of an automobile repair business, with a sign reading "Auto Electrician, Generators Ignition Batteries," and house at the intersection of Honolulu Avenue and Orangedale Avenue damaged by the catastrophic January mudslide in La Crescenta-Montrose with a car in front of the house and the San Gabriel Mountains in the background. The Honolulu Grocery store is partially visible on the right.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Night photograph of at least 3 automobiles covered in mud up nearly to the tops of the engines (after the January or October flooding).
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of Foothill Boulevard after a catastrophic flood and mudslide with cars on the left and a seventy-ton, 8-foot boulder deposited by the flood on the right
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a boulder-strewn area in front of damaged houses after a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October) with mountains in the distance
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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