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Description
Photograph of a view of the Thirty-Ninth Street relief sewer reconstruction on Alameda Sreet, looking north from Forty-First Place, June 1937. An open sewer, under construction, runs from the foreground into the distance. Workers with shovels stand underground, some with their heads visible above the exposed beams of the sewer, while other stand on planks or on the sidewalk at ground level. A row of commercial buildings sits along the road in the left side of the image. Legible signs, from left to right, include: "Foster and Kleiser. Carthay Circle Theatre Los Angeles. Now. Victor Fleming Production of Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous. Freddie Bartholomew. Spencer Tracy. [?] [Barry]more. Melvyn Douglas. Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures", "76 Gasoline", "Federal Tires Tubes", "[?] Café", "[?]Way Full Automatic Semis", "Tracy's Flats. [?] Air", "Economy Gasoline", "Utility Tr[ail]ers", "[?] Refrigerator".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photograph, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 13 x 18 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Building Sewage disposal Motion pictures Billboards Municipal officials and employees Los Angeles--Department of Public Works--Construction scenes #2--Storm and Sewer Los Angeles Department of Public Works Roadways
Time Period
1937-06-14
Place
Alameda Street California Los Angeles USA
Source
31055 [Accession number] CHS-31055 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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