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Title: Blast rips hole in Tam O'Shanter roof
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1947
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 was edited for publication purposes.
The Storybook Style building was designed by Harry Oliver and opened in 1922.
Photograph caption dated March 31, 1947 reads, "Arrow points to gaping hole in the roof of the Tam O'Shanter Inn. A mysterious explosion reduced this famous restaurant from elegance to ruins."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00105493
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 702
CARL0005183259
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30543
Subject: Tam O'Shanter Inn (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Restaurants--California--Atwater Village (Los Angeles)
Atwater Village (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Oliver, Harry,1888-1973

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