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Title: Gas explosion in Fairfax
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ruebsamen, James
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
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: Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph also used for an article dated March 25, 1988.
Photograph caption dated March 25, 1985 reads, "Hours after an explosion rocked Fairfax area shopping center last night, flames continue to flicker where natural gas escapes from crevices along Third Street."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094070
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b001_f4_i66
CARL0005031576
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29782
Subject: Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Natural gas--Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Shopping centers--California--Fairfax (Los Angeles)
Stores & shops--California--Fairfax (Los Angeles)
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Third Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fairfax (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Night photographs
Time Period: 1981-1990

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