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Title
Flooded Firestone Blvd. in Downey
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1952
Publication Information
California.Division of Highways
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.; Oversized photograph.
A January clearance sale is happening at the flooded furniture store on Firestone Blvd. at La Riena in Downey. Flooded from a recent winter storm, the water is deep enough for boats and rafts. Other people are wading knee-high in water. Photo dated: Jan., 1952.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 28 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00076210
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Floods.
CARL0000078537
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/115576
Subject
Floods--California--Downey
Storms--California, Southern
Flood damage--California--Downey
Commercial strips--California--Downey
Downey (Calif.)

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