Sign warns people to vacate the area due to landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel. The landslide occurred in Elysian Park in November 1937. It began as a small crack on Buena Vista Peak and continued to widen until the landslide dumped millions of tons of loose rock and dirt down the slope and on to Riverside Drive.
Sign warns people to vacate the area due to landslide danger near the Figueroa St. tunnel. The landslide occurred in Elysian Park in November 1937. It began as a small crack on Buena Vista Peak and continued to widen until the landslide dumped millions of tons of loose rock and dirt down the slope and on to Riverside Drive.
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.
Metropolitan Water District workmen celebrate 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.
Photo appears with the article "To open bore by next April: Second-Street Tunnel Work Progressing Rapidly; Pouring of Cement for Tube Already Under Way; Most Modern Machinery Will Be Installed Soon. It Will be a Hole Through Hill by Spring," Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 1921: II1.
Photograph of the north end of the fourth and southernmost Figueora Street Tunnel while under construction. A truck is backed up to a mound of dirt that is leading up to the tunnel. Workers stand throughout. Scaffolding is present on both sides of the roadway as well as in the entrance of the tunnel.
Photograph taken inside of one of the 2 drift tunnels used during the construction of the southernmost of the four Figueroa Street Tunnels. Two me stand on a car on tracks for an electric tram used for removal of sandstone are on the right and the tunnel is reinforced with thick wooden beams.