Mrs. Runyan, with cast, and others demand sewers for homes
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Brich, George
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 was edited for publication purposes Designed by Peter K. Schabarum, the Art Deco Valley Municipal Building, located at 14410 Sylvan Street, was completed in 1932 and is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. Photograph caption dated May 24, 1963 reads, "Sun Valley women protested that cesspools are a menace and inconvenience." The article partially reads, "Ten women picketed Van Nuys City Hall for four hours Tuesday in a demand for immediate installation of sewers in a Sun Valley housing tract...A woman on crutches, Mrs. Anne Runyon, 8438 Nagle Ave., was among the pickets. She said she injured her leg after slipping in front of her house where sewage had overflowed onto the sidewalk."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Valley Municipal Building City halls--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Public buildings--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Women--California--Los Angeles Women--Wounds and injuries--California--Los Angeles Crutches--California--Los Angeles Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles Picketing--California--Los Angeles Protest posters Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs Schabarum, Peter K
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