More than 100 residents were displaced after a three-story, century-old apartment building located on North Boylston Street partially collapsed when wooden supports between the foundation and first floor gave way. After city inspectors surveyed the building, they found the damage too extensive to repair and declared the building a hazard. Two members of each family, escorted by a firefighter, were allowed to make one trip into their home and were permitted to salvage what they could carry from the unsteady structure. Pictured is Gilbert Sosa, 39, collecting personal mementos as an unidentified firefighter looks on. Photograph dated October 26, 1986.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 21 cm. on sheet 28 x 24 cm. Photographic prints
Accidents--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--Foundations--California--Los Angeles Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles Homeless families--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles) Lost architecture--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles) Families--California--Los Angeles Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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