Man with a shovel digging his car out after a catastrophic mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Man with a shovel digging his car out after a catastrophic mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Date Created

1934

Date

1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

A man with a shovel is digging his car out after a catastrophic mudslide (in either January or October). Behind him on the left are 2 men inside a destroyed house and another man is standing behind a hedge 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 Cañada, 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.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Floods, Montrose, 1934

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Landslides--California--La Crescenta-Montrose