Workers repair a bridge after damage from record-breaking rains, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Workers repair a bridge after damage from record-breaking rains, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Date Created

January 1934

Date

1934-01

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

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.
In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. 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.

Caption

Text from original nitrate sleeve: Flood- La Crescenta Highway, La Crescenta Bridge.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Storms - La Crescenta Bridge 12/31/33.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Location

La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Bridges--California--La Crescenta-Montrose