Subject: Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A wrecked car has collided with a telephone pole along the La Crescenta Highway, possibly due to the effect of flooding in that area. La Crescenta and the surrounding area experienced severe flooding after heavy, record-breaking rainfall that resulted in loss of life as well as extensive damage to land and property in the first days of 1934.
Date:: [circa Jan. 1, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A group of men labor to repair a road and bridge in La Crescenta after heavy rains cause damage in that area. In the subsequent days, more rain would cause further flooding, resulting in dozens of lost lives as well as further destruction in the La Crescenta/Montrose area. December 31, 1933.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: View of at least 12 workers with shovels and a tractor clearing flood debris. Timber from a destroyed building is in the foreground and a garage is in the right background.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two automobiles wait on a road as 2 workers clear mud from the road with earth moving equipment. A sign on a commercial building reads "Crescenta Hardware."
Date:: April 8, 1935
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:: 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 damage, but no deaths.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of two little boys inside the living room of their home after a devastating flood (in either January or October). One boy holds on to his dog and the other holds a shovel. The flood level is visible on the wall and upright piano. A piece of toppled upholstered furniture is in the room beyond.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of 2 automobiles on a road littered with rocks and mud left by flooding after a heavy rain
Date:: April 8, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Three men load a water container on a burro in a flood-ravaged landscape. Mud is everywhere, but a concrete curb in the foreground indicates the location of the road.
Date:: January 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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