Location: La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. Two floods followed the next year. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless. Another rainstorm on October 17 caused additional flooding and damage, but no deaths.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of 2 women standing next to a car trapped in mud from the flood and landslide resulting from a devastating rain storm. The car has been partially dug out from the mud. Another car and houses are in the background.
Date:: January 2, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of bystanders outside of the American Legion Hall, damaged by flood and mudslide. Window panes are missing. The mudslide crashed into the back of the building and filled it with mud and rocks. Twenty-five people had taken refuge in hall when the flood took out the wall. The building was located at the intersection of Fairway Ave. and Rosemont Ave.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a building destroyed by a flood (in January or October), next to a telephone pole, with other destroyed buildings in the background on the right and the San Gabriel mountains in the distance. The flood devastated Montrose and La Crescenta.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View down Honolulu Avenue, strewn with mud and rocks after the October 17 flood. The walls of the grocery and the Auto Electrical buildings were pushed back by flood waters and mud. Beyond these buildings is the intersection at Orangedale Avenue, with more commercial buildings beyond with signs reading: "Gilmore Red Lion, Batteries, Service," "Shave 15¢, Haircut 24¢," and "5000 Hollywood, Automanx auto loans."
Date:: October 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Permanent Flood Work Begun at La Crescenta," Los Angeles Times 23 Jul. 1935: A5.
Date:: July 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Building (house?) with mud up to the window sills after a catastrophic flood and mudslide (in either January or October). A woman leans over to take a look into one of the broken windows.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. Two floods followed the next year. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless. Another rainstorm on October 17 caused additional flooding and damage, but no deaths.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "Gale Perils Ships as Record Storm Leaves Trio Dead: Coast Guard Boats Dash to Rescue; Several Injured as Rain Here Sets Two-Decade Mark." Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 1935.
Date:: April 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. Two floods followed the next year. In late December, a series of storms dropped 12 inches of rain. On New Year's Eve, heavy rains led to sporadic flooding. Around midnight, mountain hillsides collapsed sending millions of tons of mud into the Crescenta Valley neighborhoods below. More than 400 homes were destroyed in La Cañada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless. Another rainstorm on October 17 caused additional flooding. And another storm had threatened to cause flooding and damage, but no deaths.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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