Firefighters spray the ruins of the Fountain of the World headquarters, 1958.

Item Overview

Title: Firefighters spray the ruins of the Fountain of the World headquarters, 1958.
Date Created: December, 10, 1958
Date: 1958-12-10
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Notes

Description: A bomb destroyed the building in Box Canyon, near Simi Valley and Chatsworth.
Caption: Daily Mirror caption: Fireman plays hoses on smoking ruins of bombed building near Chatsworth where nine are feared dead. The blast ignited tinder-dry brush in the surrounding area and other fire companies are battling to keep it from spreading. At right is recent pho of Krishna Venta, sect leader, believed dead in fire.

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: Disaster
Fire departments--Equipment and supplies
Cults--California--Ventura County
Fire fighting--California--Ventura County
Bombings--California.

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: b367_114115c
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0014010v
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