Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections / Subject: Automobile service stations--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: Spectators watch as men work to retrieve Calvin Darling from a pit that caved in on him as he was working on completion of a gasoline tank storage pit at the Lou Ryne service station.
Date:: August 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Architectural drawing of a General Petroleum service station with a Spanish style tile roof to be located at N. Alameda St. and E. Aliso St. in Los Angeles. The center has an enclosed room below a gable with two open wings on either side for fuel pumps. On the roof are two sculptures of Pegasus, trademark of the Mobil company which owned General Petroleum.
Date:: December 5, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to 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

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