Crane on Honolulu Avenue clearing debris left by a catastrophic flood and mudslide, La Crescenta-Montrose, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Crane on Honolulu Avenue clearing debris left by a catastrophic flood and 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

Crane on Honolulu Avenue near the intersection with Orangedale Avenue loading debris from a catastrophic flood and mudslide into a dump truck on a commercial street in La Crescenta-Montrose (after the January or October flood). A sign on a comercial building reads "D. J. Barrett, Shell." The Honolulu Grocery store is 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

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

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
Disaster relief--California--La Crescenta-Montrose
Steam shovels
Flood damage--California--La Crescenta-Montrose