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Title: Flooded Firestone Blvd. in Downey
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
Publication Information: California.Division of Highways
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: Title supplied by cataloger.; Oversized photograph.
Flooding from a winter storm extends into the Sacus Mercury dealership and other businesses on Firestone Blvd. east of Paramount in Downey. Two boys on bicycles stop by a crowd looking at the scene. Utility and light poles as well as the pumps at the Signal Gasoline station are standing in water. Photo dated: Jan., 1952.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 28 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00076214
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Floods.
CARL0000078541
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/115580
Subject: J.C. Penney Co
Floods--California--Downey
Storms--California, Southern
Flood damage--California--Downey
Commercial strips--California--Downey
Downey (Calif.)

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