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Title: Avalon Village home ripped to Pieces by gas explosion
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption dated November 21, 1953 reads, "The Walls Blew Into Splinters, the Roof Sagged, Furniture Was Strewn over a Wide Area When Household Gas Blew Up; Luckily Nobody Was in the Home at 102 East 235th Street." Avalon Village is a neighborhood in Carson.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 35 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099410
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112191
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30385
Subject: Debris--California--Carson
Explosions--California--Carson
Gas-pipes--California--Carson
Dwellings--California--Carson
Lost architecture--California--Carson
Carson (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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