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Title
Worker killed as store being demolished falls in on him
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued
1987
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.
A man identified as Alejandro Cervantes, 28, was killed when part of the second-floor parking structure of the old Broadway department store in Pasadena collapsed and buried him under tons of concrete. Cervantes, a mechanic, was working with a skip loader on the ground floor when the accident occurred. It took more than two hours to recover his body. Photograph dated February 14, 1987.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 36 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00094861
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b005_f4_i26
CARL0005063747
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33447
Subject
Accidents--California--Pasadena
Accident victims--California--Pasadena
Fire fighters--California--Pasadena
Construction and demolition debris--California--Pasadena
Wrecking--Accidents--California--Pasadena
Parking garages--California--Pasadena
Wrecking--California--Pasadena
Pasadena (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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