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Title: Shoe stand wrecked by car
Alternative Title: Housing Authority Photo Collection;
Contributor: This is a reproduction made from the original print owned by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
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: A mattress flops over the wreckage that litters the entrance to Joe's Shine, a shoeshine stand in a poor neighborhood that was wrecked by a car. Signs advertising Mission Orange drink and "La Primavera Zapateria" are still attached to the leaning roof. Photo dated: Dec. 19, 1949.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00066554
Housing Authority Collection;
GPC_b29_f2; A-004-134 4x5
CARL0000070422
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/882
Subject: Poverty--California--Los Angeles
Abandoned buildings--California--Los Angeles
Shoe shiners--California--Los Angeles
Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles
Housing Authority Collection photographs

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