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Description:: Onlookers gathered on the Center Street bridge with wooden trusses spanning the Los Angeles River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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:: Text from newspaper caption for another image of the Norwalk bridge during this storm: Valiant effforts to save the Norwalk bridge over the San Gabriel from the rampaging waters were being made late yesterday. Photo shows a truck employed in removing debris obstructing channel. (Times photo.) [Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 1927: A3]
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the Norwalk bridge with a wooden railing and wooden trusses spanning the San Gabriel River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm. The bridge is occupied by onlookers and a truck covered with a tarp. A rope extends from the bridge, over the railing and into the river.
Date:: February 16, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View down a commercial street flooded during or after a rainstorm. Automobiles are on the street and a commercial sign reads "Mesa Dry Goods."
Date:: February 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a man watching overflowing manhole on an urban street during a heavy rainstorm. Two billboards are in the background with advertisements for Iris Coffee and MJB Coffee.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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