View of an automobile driving down a flooded commercial street during rainstorm. A sign on a commercial building reads "Fox Bros, Free Delivery, 4030, 4032."
Onlookers gathered on the Center Street bridge with wooden trusses spanning the Los Angeles River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm
View of the Center Street bridge with wooden railings and trusses spanning the Los Angeles River, swollen with flood water from a torrential rain storm. Onlookers are visible on the bridge.
Caption: View from Center-street bridge over the San Gabriel. Note Sandbag levees erected to keep waters in channel (Times photo.) [Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 1927: A3].
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."