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Sign warns pedestrians and drivers of landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel, Los Angeles, November 1937

Description:
Sign warns people to vacate the area due to landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel. The landslide occurred in Elysian Park in November 1937. It began as a small crack on Buena Vista Peak and continued to widen until the landslide dumped millions of tons of loose rock and dirt down the slope and on to Riverside Drive.
Date:
November 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Sign warns pedestrians and drivers of landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel, Los Angeles, November 1937

Sign warns pedestrians and drivers of landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel, Los Angeles, November 1937

Description:
Sign warns people to vacate the area due to landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel. The landslide occurred in Elysian Park in November 1937. It began as a small crack on Buena Vista Peak and continued to widen until the landslide dumped millions of tons of loose rock and dirt down the slope and on to Riverside Drive.
Date:
November 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Sign warns pedestrians and drivers of landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel, Los Angeles, November 1937

Second Street tunnel construction site prior to boring of the tunnel, Los Angeles, 1921

Description:
Photo appears with the article "To open bore by next April: Second-Street Tunnel Work Progressing Rapidly; Pouring of Cement for Tube Already Under Way; Most Modern Machinery Will Be Installed Soon. It Will be a Hole Through Hill by Spring," Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 1921: II1.
Date:
August 21, 1921
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Second Street tunnel construction site prior to boring of the tunnel, Los Angeles, 1921

Southernmost of the four Figueroa Street Tunnels under construction, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Photograph of the north end of the fourth and southernmost Figueora Street Tunnel while under construction. A truck is backed up to a mound of dirt that is leading up to the tunnel. Workers stand throughout. Scaffolding is present on both sides of the roadway as well as in the entrance of the tunnel.
Date:
[January 1936?]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Southernmost of the four Figueroa Street Tunnels under construction, Los Angeles, 1936