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Title
Car smashes drive-in, injures nine
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
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
Date Created and/or Issued
1957
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.
Photograph caption dated February 4, 1957 reads, "While customers waited for hot dogs and hamburgers, car belonging to Roy Eubank, 50, of Encino, lunged through crowd, hurting four Marines and five other persons at drive-in stand, corner of Woodward avenue and Foothill boulevard in Sunland. Car leaped 2-foot retaining wall and came to rest in kitchen, leaving it in shambles."; See images #00146952 through #00146953 for all photos in this series.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00146952
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d056_f36_i27
CARL0005898844
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/74628
Subject
Drunk driving--California--Los Angeles
Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Kitchens--California--Los Angeles
Restaurants--California--Sunland (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Sunland (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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