Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
2 images. New Palisades slide inspection, 10 April 1958. Mayor Norris Poulson Karl Rundberg (Councilman) Admiral Cushing Phillips (Admiral) G. Austin Schroter John Harding (District engineer). Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1958-04-10. Reporter: Gaze. Assignment: New Palisades slide inspection. #52: L to R: G. Austin Schroter, consulting geologist and chairman of Geological Hazards Committee of Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson, Councilman Karl Rundberg, District Engineer John Harding and Admiral Cushing Phillips, president Los Angeles Board of Public Works inspect new slide area from top of bluff during tour. #61-62: Mayor Norris Poulson, Councilman Karl Rundberg and Admiral Cushing Phillips, president of the Los Angeles City Board of Public Works, inspect wide crack in concrete pavement of shuffleboard and badminton courts near swimming pool at luxurious $2,000,000 Pacific Gardens apartment-hotel in Pacific Palisades. Geologists say cracks indicate another slide due (will be 4th in two weeks in Palisades area)".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : negatives, b&w 13 x 10 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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