Cars marooned by flood debris outside Bohemian Gardens nightclub, Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Cars marooned by flood debris outside Bohemian Gardens nightclub, Los Angeles, 1934

Date Created

January 1, 1934

Date

1934-01-01

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Related to the article, "Patients Forced Out By Flood." Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 1934: 5.
View of 2 men standing among automobiles half-submerged in flood debris outside of the Bohemian Gardens nightclub on Mission Road, just north of the Los Angeles County General Hospital (at 1200 N. State St). Two cars are trapped in stone-encrusted mud and another car was rolled over; lumber is in the foreground and a high wall is in the background. This local flooding was caused by the failure of an old reservoir above Bohemian Gardens, which released a great body of water into the parking lot.
Related to the article, "Thousands Of Men Start Removal of Wreckage: Death and Damage Widespread; Homes Flooded, Roads Blocked and Bridges Demolished; Victim Under Debris." Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 1934: 4.
The heaviest rainstorm in a 24 hour period in the history of the local United States Weather Bureau dropped 8.27 inches of water on December 31, 1933 to January 1, 1934, resulting in flooding and landslides throughout Los Angeles.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Floods, Bohemian Gardens [handwritten:] ?

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Bohemian Gardens (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Flood damage--California--Los Angeles