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Title: Play in Pacoima as repairs erase scars of disaster
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection;
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
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
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.
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Description: On January 31, 1957, a Douglas DC-7B transport plane crashed into the school yard of Pacoima Junior High School, 9919 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, after colliding with a Northrop F-89J Scorpion jet trainer plane. Debris was also strewn across the grounds of Terra Bella Elementary School, adjacent to the junior high, and Pacoima Congregational Church, next door to the school. Three students and five airmen died and many more students were injured. The radarman aboard the jet was the only airman who survived. See images 00147086 through 00147092 for all photos in this series.
Photograph caption dated March 19, 1957 reads "When death struck from skies. This is playground of Pacoima Junior High School minutes after flaming wreckage of DC7B transport showered down on boys' gym class. Disaster's toll amounted to eight killed and 74 injured. Three of dead were school boys and of 74 injured youngsters six are still in hospitals." See image 00147106 for additional photo in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier: 00147107
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d056_f35_i9; H-21406.1a 4x5
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/127091
Subject: Douglas Aircraft Company
Pacoima Middle School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Aircraft accidents--California--Los Angeles
Douglas DC-7 (Transport plane)
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Middle schools--California--Los Angeles
Schools--California--Pacoima (Los Angeles)
Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1951-1960

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