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Photograph article dated October 13, 1948 reads, "Four 60-foot concrete silos which have been standing for 31 years as a landmark in the San Fernando Valley were demolished yesterday, victims of progress and the housing shortage. Two silos stubbornly withstood the first blasts of 120 sticks of dynamite allocated to each by Battalion Chief James F. Martin, head of the Fire Department's13-man demolition squad. From then on it was one at a time, with 182 of the half-pound sticks for each of the giant storage bins. Merrit H. Adamson, head of Adohr Farms, watched silently as the demolition crew wrecked the landmarks he built on his farm at 18000 Ventura Blvd. when that highway was a dirt road. Adamson recently sold the property to builders who are planning to cut the land into city parcels and construct low-cost homes for veterans."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Adohr Stock Farms Los Angeles (Calif.).--Fire Department--Employees Construction and demolition debris--California--Los Angeles Silos--California--Los Angeles Demolition--California--Tarzana (Los Angeles) Lost architecture--California--Tarzana (Los Angeles) Tarzana (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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