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Title: Accident opens one-hour car wash
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Woods, Jon
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated June 15, 1961 reads, "A geyser spurted for nearly one hour at Sherman Way and Woodley avenue, Van Nuys, after an auto accident which knocked down a fire hydrant. Three fire department units responded at 3:45 p.m. The flow was shut off at 4:43. Driver Robert Trout, 20, 15929 Hartland St., Van Nuys, was treated for minor injuries and released by Valley Receiving Hospital."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00120040
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d023_f32_i14
CARL0005383352
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/53161
Subject: Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles
Hydrants--Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Commercial buildings--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Parking lots--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Palms--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Woodley Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sherman Way (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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