Location: Bouquet Canyon (Calif.) / Subject: Events - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Related to published Los Angeles Times photographs with the caption: Here's Where Flow Started; View of Control Tower [Los Angeles Times, "Water in New Reservoir," 3/29/1934]
Date:: March 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dedication of Boquet Reservoir with William P. Whitsett, Chairman of the Metropolitan Water District; H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Bureau of Water Works; and Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw standing in front of the gates of the concrete inlet-outlet tower
Date:: March 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the officials and a truck next to the concrete inlet-outlet tower, 130 feet high, at the Bouquet Canyon Reservoir during the dedication ceremony when the water was first released to fill the reservoir. More than 50 persons attended the opening including Mayor Shaw; H. A. Van Norman, Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Bureau of Water Works; William Mulholland; Henry L. Jacques, E. F. Scattergood; President Hugh J. McGuire of the Board of Public Works; Lloyd Aldrich, City Engineer; Water Power Commissioner Arthur J. Mullen; T. A. Panter; William W. Hurlbut and Mrs Harriett Sunday of the Civil Service Commission; J. B. Lippincott, consulting engineer; and President William P. Whitsett of the Metropolitan Water District.
Date:: March 28, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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