Flames tower above burning houses in Hollywood Hills area
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Brich, George
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated May 13, 1961 reads, "Raging fire forced hundreds of residents to flee homes during night." The article partially reads, "Shifting winds today alternately helped and threatened 500 exhausted firemen battling a 1,200-acre brush fire in the Hollywood Hills which destroyed 24 homes and damaged 30 others....The blaze erupted at 7:43 p.m. Friday near Hollyridge avenue and Beachwood Canyon drive in the Griffith Park area....The fire was still burning today towards Burbank and Glendale on a northern-north-eastern-northwestern line in the vicinity of Mt. Lee and Mullholland [sic], Vista Del Valle and Mt. Hollywood drives."; See images #00114985 through #00114989 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Fires--California--Hollywood Hills (Los Angeles) Dwellings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Trees--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Hollywood Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Night photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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