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Title
Crescent Way, Muller Street and Santa Ana Freeway, looking east
Alternative Title
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator
Kelly, Howard D
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1956
Publication Information
Kelly-Holiday
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.
The $2,500,000. research and development center of the Richfield Oil Corp. was built on a 20-acre site adjacent to the Santa Ana Freeway at the west edge of Anaheim, and opened on October 23, 1956. It comprises a laboratory building, administration building, pilot plant, engine laboratory building, shops and a warehouse building.
Aerial view of Richfield Oil Corp. research plant, located on Crescent Way and Muller Street and adjacent to the Santa Ana (5) Freeway in Anaheim; view is looking east. Crescent Way is diagonally at lower left, bending just below the 5 freeway, and paralleling it to upper right; Muller Street starts at middle left, to middle right; the Santa Ana Freeway is diagonally middle left to upper right; Broadway Department Store is on opposite side of the freeway, in the distance (upper right). Several large groves can be seen scattered throughout among the neighborhoods. Photograph dated November 14, 1956.
Type
image
Format
1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00089729
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 322-1
CARL0004956041
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/5230
Subject
Richfield Oil Corporation
Broadway (Department store)
Department stores--California--Anaheim
Express highways--California, Southern
Oil industries--California--Anaheim
Dwellings--California--Anaheim
Citrus--California--Anaheim
Streets--California--Anaheim
Anaheim (Calif.)
Interstate 5
Anaheim (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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