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Title
Gas station that makes motorists think twice
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Sergieff, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued
1981
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 caption dated January 18, 1981 reads, "Andy Soulanille surveys the twisted sheet metal that used to be a sleek Trans-Am." Soulanille, owner of the towing company at the S.N. Ward Mobil Station at 733 S. Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, explains that the service station displays different wrecked cars each month in hopes of preventing future accidents and fatalities. Artoor Terminassians, 20, of Glendale, and Amirhossein Akhlarkhavery, 22, or Northridge, were killed in the Trans-Am on December 27 at 2 a.m. in Pasadena when the car veered out of control at speeds estimated at above 100 mph.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00094941
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b004_f2_i48
CARL0005049475
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/32890
Subject
Service stations--California--Pasadena
Traffic accidents--California--Pasadena
Traffic fatalities--California--Pasadena
Automobiles--California--Pasadena
Debris--California--Pasadena
Streets--California--Pasadena
Pontiac automobile
Arroyo Parkway (Pasadena, Calif.)
Pasadena (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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