Automobile repair business and house damaged by the catastrophic January mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- Automobile repair business and house damaged by the catastrophic January mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934
- Date Created
- January 1934
- Date
- 1934-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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View of an automobile repair business, with a sign reading "Auto Electrician, Generators Ignition Batteries," and house at the intersection of Honolulu Avenue and Orangedale Avenue damaged by the catastrophic January mudslide in La Crescenta-Montrose with a car in front of the house and the San Gabriel Mountains in the background. The Honolulu Grocery store is partially visible on the right.
In November 1933, wildfires raged through the San Gabriel Mountains above the Crescenta Valley. Two floods followed the next year. 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 CaƱada, La Crescenta, Montrose and Tujunga. Scores of people were killed, and hundreds were left homeless. Another rainstorm on October 17 caused additional flooding and damage, but no deaths.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- La Crescenta-Montrose (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.207061
- Latitude
- -118.232429
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Landslides--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_4595
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002ctg3q
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .