Fountain of the World headquarters reduced to debris after a bomb-blast destroyed the two story building in Box Canyon, near Simi Valley, 1958.

Item Overview

Title: Fountain of the World headquarters reduced to debris after a bomb-blast destroyed the two story building in Box Canyon, near Simi Valley, 1958.
Date Created: December 10, 1958
Date: 1958-12-10
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Caption: Daily Mirror: EXTRA - two-story stone building which housed headquarters of the Fountain of the World sect is reduced to a pile of debris after bomb blast early this morning. explosion also caved in the wall of an adjoining dormitory in which 10 boys were sleeping. The group building is in a hilly, wooded section.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 10 x 12 cm
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Location: Ventura County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Ruins--California--1950-1960
Disaster
Bombings--California.
Cults--California--Ventura County
Fire fighting--California--Ventura County

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: b367_114115a
ARK: ark:/21198/zz001400xb
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