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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:: Men gather along the sides of the ditch, some of them with shovels.
Date:: April 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Similar photograph appears with the article, "Three Men, All Hurt, Saved from Ditch Cave-in Death," Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr 1937: A1.
Date:: April 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Three Men, All Hurt, Saved from Ditch Cave-in Death," Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr 1937: A1.
Date:: April 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Members of Boy Scout Troop 47 and rescuers, carrying David Swaim on a stretcher after he suffered a minor heart attack on a hike in which the troop was marooned overnight in Arroyo Seco Canyon. The scouts became lost on their way back during a seven mile hike between Switzer's Camp and Oake Wilde. The troop lit matches to signal a rescue party of parents, deputy sheriffs, and county prisoners. All, including Swaim, survived the ordeal.
Date:: December 9, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Two men crouch down in the tunnel, wading in a pool of dirty water with floating debris in it.
Date:: December 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Three men crouch down standing knee-deep in murky water, two of them use a long tool to pry at the walls of the tunnel.
Date:: December 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Firemen and police officers remove victims from the twisted plane wreckage of a downed plane at 5715 Van Ness Avenue. They administered first aid to the three injured occupants before sending them to hospital. The plane landed on the front lawn of a residential home in a densely populated neighborhood.
Date:: August 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Officer Lundrigan, normally stationed at Fifth and Olive streets, saved an unidentified woman from being struck by a speeding ambulance, which had already been carrying a victim of a hit and run. Lundrigan was quoted as saying, "Aw, it was nothing."
Date:: December 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Cave-In Mystery Park Tunnel Traps Two Men," Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec 1935: 1.
Date:: December 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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