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Title: Fuel tanker exploded on the Golden State Freeway
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1980
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 reads: "Golden State and Pasadena Freeways: On Aug. 11, 1980, the freeway was closed in both directions for nine hours after a fuel tanker ruptured and exploded in the northbound lanes at the Pasadena Freeway interchange. Intense heat buckled a railroad overpass." Photograph dated: Aug. 11, 1980 ; photograph reproduced for an article dated: March 17, 1985.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082144
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b009_f5_i4
CARL0000081253
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24979
Subject: Truck accidents--California--Los Angeles
Express highways--Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Oil spills--California--Los Angeles
Arroyo Seco Parkway (Calif.)
Interstate 5
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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