Red, yellow alert: Sometimes the shelter is scanty
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Woods, Jon
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
Photograph caption dated October 23, 1961 reads, "Valley Times TODAY Staff Writer Ralph Clark found a variety of temporary shelters when he took part in a series of simulated bomb alerts while driving though the San Fernando Valley ... Clark peers through the window of a locked door leading to the basement of the Van Nuys postoffice ... "; See images #00108541 - #00108543 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 17 cm. Photographic prints
Clark, Ralph Journalists--United States Post office buildings--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Emergency drills--California--Los Angeles Air raid shelters--California--Los Angeles Disasters--California--Los Angeles Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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