Power Department workers paint fellow employes [sic] home
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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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 article dated March 21, 1961 partially reads, "Fred Weiss stood on his lawn Saturday and smiled happily at the activity about his house. Twenty of his fellow workers from the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power station at 14730 Saticoy St., Van Nuys, were using up 17 gallons of paint on his house and garage at 5635 Camellia Ave., North Hollywood. 'Heck,' said Weiss, who had a hernia operation two weeks ago, 'it would have taken me a month to do what they are doing.'" Fred Weiss, center, watches co-workers paint his home. They finished it in four hours.
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Image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Water and Power--Officials and employees House painting--California--Los Angeles House painting--Equipment and supplies Painting--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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