Workers push down telephone pole to make Mines Field safer, Inglewood, 1935

Title: Workers push down telephone pole to make Mines Field safer, Inglewood, 1935
Date Created: November 5, 1935
Date: 1935-11-05
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The Los Angeles Municipal airport, also known as Mines Field, is now known as Los Angeles International Airport, or LAX.
This photograph may be associated with the article, “PLANE FIELD LOSES PERIL: Deadly Electric Wires Moved High-Tension Line Placed Half Mile Away From Municipal Airport Death Trap Lines at Airport Removed POWER LINE PERIL ENDS AT AIRPORT,” Los Angeles Times 5 Nov. 1935: A1.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Tearing down high tension wires at Mines Field 11-4-35.
Text from negative sleeve: 2776—Digging up + Tearing down poles carrying High Tension wires at Mines Field 11-4-35, [Stamped:] NOV 11 1935.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Los Angeles International Airport
Location: Inglewood (Calif.)
Longitude: 33.942809°
Latitude: -118.404706°
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Automobiles--American--California--Inglewood
Utility poles--California--Inglewood
Laborers--California--Inglewood
Electric lines--California--Inglewood

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_9285
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dhb14
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