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Description:: View of the Los Angeles River and steep earthen bank during rainstorm flooding
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a commercial street flooded, possibly by the Los Angeles River, during or after a heavy rainstorm. Three men are raising the level of a tarp-covered truck with a wooden beam used as a lever in the middle of the street. Another truck with 2 kerosene lamps perched on it is on the right and sections of large pipe are on the side of the street on the far right. A pile of dirt is behind the truck. Signs on and around the commercial buildings read "United States Tires, Sales & Service Depot, Lloyds Service Station," "Quaker State Motor Oil," "Gilmore Gasoline," "Sanitary Kitchen, C. Soper..,...Ice Cream," "Radio Shop, Hardware," and "S. C. Weaver Const. Co."
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the Los Angeles River during rainstorm flooding. A fence is visible on the left and a bridge, possibly, is in the background.
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the Center Street bridge with wooden railings and trusses spanning the Los Angeles River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm. Onlookers are visible on the bridge.
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Caption: View from Center-street bridge over the San Gabriel. Note Sandbag levees erected to keep waters in channel (Times photo.) [Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 1927: A3].
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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