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Title: Bulldozer wrecks church
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.
Photograph caption dated July 21, 1987 reads, "Little boy steps through rubble of church that bulldozer smashed through last night." Teenagers were joy riding on a bulldozer, taken from a construction site in Watts, and crashed it into Mount Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, located at Graham Avenue and 105th Street.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094798
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b005_f1_i56
CARL0005061320
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33590
Subject: Boys--California--Los Angeles
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles
Church buildings--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Baptist church buildings--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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