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Title: Unplugged' fire plug
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Martin, Bob
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: 1963
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 was edited for publication purposes
Caption dated November 1, 1963 reads, "Geyser floods the Burbank intersection of Cordova St. and Magnolia Blvd. late Sunday after a car driven by Franklin B. Lewis Jr., 24, 2122 1/2 N. Lincoln Ave., Burbank, sheared off a hydrant. Lewis, who apparently lost control of his car, is in satisfactory condition in St. Joseph Hospital. Police said water soared 15 feet above the electric lines at the corner."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00113071
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d013_f2_i16
CARL0005308215
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48557
Subject: Hydrants--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Traffic accidents--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Streets--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Spectators--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Night photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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