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Title: Subway Terminal Building to be used as shelter
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961
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: This is part of the old Pacific Electric subway tunnel underneath the Subway Terminal Building. It can be used as a fallout shelter. If renovated, it can accomodate 10,000 people in case of an attack. Photo dated: August 2, 1961.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00066981
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2203.
CARL0000071390
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24180
Subject: Subway Terminal Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fallout shelters--California--Los Angeles
Railroad terminals--California--Los Angeles
Subway tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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