Genre: news photographs / Subject: Storms--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of the Pacific Electric Railway (or Red Car) bridge located near the Glendale bridge in Atwater Village during rainstorm flooding in the Los Angeles River
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Another similar photograph of 6th street during this storm is captioned: J. Pluvius Has Field Day With Los Angeles Traffic and Business. The outlying districts were not the only ones to feel the effects of the continuous downpour of the last few days. This photo at Sixth and Catalina streets in the heart of the apartment house district. (Photos by George R. Watson, Times Staff Photographer) [Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1927: 8]
Date:: February 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a storm-flooded residential neighborhood with 3 houses visible and more houses indicated behind them. Four men are in front of the houses standing on patches of ground elevated a bit above the flood line. Two men wear high boots, 2 wear shorts. One man is holding a long wooden plank, perhaps to be used as a walkway.
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A very similar photograph is captioned: J. Pluvius Has Field Day With Los Angeles Traffic and Business. Neighborhood business centers in a dozen different sections were isolated as a result of the downpour. Here is one of the districts cut off by the deluge. Photo taken at Sixth and Kenmore streets. (Photos by George R. Watson, Times Staff Photographer) [Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1927: 8].
Date:: February 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the Glendale bridge on the Los Angeles River in the Atwater Village area, near Glendale, after it was destroyed by torrential storm flooding
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the flooded intersection of First St. and Broadway during a heavy rainstorm.
Date:: [probably 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the flooded intersection of First St. and Broadway during a heavy rainstorm.
Date:: [1926?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of Ingledale Terrace, near Glendale and 2 blocks from the Los Angeles River, flooded during a torrential rain storm. One man in the foreground holds a rope which is extended to a man in the middle ground. Just beyond him is a third man holding on to a stump-like object on the ground. Houses are visible behind them.
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Large splinters and beams of wood stick out of the muddy edifice and narrow river underneath the ruins. Three people can be seen looking at the scene from the top of the road.
Date:: February 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a man crossing a flooded commercial street to get to his automobile. He is walking on a makeshift bridge made from wooden planks. A policeman wearing a uniform cap and a long raincoat stands next to the car. A sign below a window just above a headlight of the car appears to read "1557 Pico." Other signs on the buildings read "OK Auto Repair, Fliver Service," and "Laundry."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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