A policeman stoops amid the debris from a gas explosion at the Garment Capitol Building on 8th St. that caused $1,000,000 in damage. A portion of a gas pipe had been removed and fire officials were originally inclined to rule out the explosion as accidental. Photo caption reads: "Here is a ground floor corner of the building, with huge plate glass windows shattered into bits and scattered on the sidwalk like snow. The force of the explosion broke heavy glass and marble slabs as thuogh [sic] they were things of tissue". Photo dated: Oct. 21, 1930.
Fires--California--Los Angeles Explosions--California--Los Angeles Clothing trade--California--Los Angeles Factories--California--Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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