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Title: Transformer blast torches cars
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
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 caption dated November 29, 1988 reads, "Five cars were gutted and windows shattered yesterday in an abandoned building at 620 Colorado Ave. in Santa Monica after an electrical transformer box exploded. The explosion, heard seven blocks away, severed overhead electrical lines that fell on the cars, igniting them. No one was injured, police said. The cause of the blast is undetermined."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;23 x 34 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00096030
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b008_f1_i14
CARL0005109980
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30338
Subject: Electric transformers--California--Santa Monica
Debris--California--Santa Monica
Automobiles--California--Santa Monica
Explosions--California--Santa Monica
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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