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Description:: Automobiles drive through flooding caused by an unexpected downpour at McKinley and Manchester Avenues
Date:: February 25, 1940
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fire fighters working to save a terminal in the L.A. Harbor which was threatened by flames when the Markay, an oil tanker owned by the Keystone Tankship Corp., exploded in the wee hours of the morning. The fire was fed by leaking gasoline and threatened at least five terminals in the harbor. At least 22 were injured and 9, possibly 12, people were killed. Damage was estimated at $10,000,000.
Date:: June 22, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Metropolitan Water District workman pours the last batch of concrete for the completion of a water tunnel. The tunnel was part of a distributing system that brought Colorado River water to Los Angeles and surrounding communities.
Date:: March 17, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: View of a walkway on North Broadway Street in "New" Chinatown, Los Angeles following the move from the Union Station area.
Date:: ca. 1938
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chavez Ravine residents were forced to relocate in the 1940s when the City voted to accept federal funding for new housing developments in the area. When these apartment projects failed several years later, the remaining residents of Chavez Ravine were removed by a controversial order of eminent domain to build Dodger Stadium.
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: In the 1950s, Boyle Heights was racially and ethnically diverse, with Jews, Mexican Americans, Russians, Serbs, Croatians, Portuguese, and Japanese Americans living in the neighborhood.
Date:: ca. 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Main Street on Terminal Island (East San Pedro) during a curfew and blackout on December 8, 1941, the day that the United States declared war on Japan.
Date:: December 8, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: View of the Mexican American community Chavez Ravine, near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, from a nearby hillside.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Main Street, Terminal Island (East San Pedro) is empty in preparation for a curfew and blackout on December 8, 1941, the day that the United States declared war on Japan.
Date:: December 8, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chavez Ravine residents were forcibly removed from their homes and properties in 1950 to make way for Dodger Stadium, in a controversial eminent domain decision enforced by local and state authorities.
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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