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Title: Freak of blast, all these items were hurled 50 feet from same room
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
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 caption dated March 12, 1960 reads, "Kitchen Utensils, Phone, Picture, Cereal Box and Glass Jars - Not Even Cracked! - Were Hurled in a Mass and Landed Together When Blast Demolished Apartment." The explosion happened at 3422 Helms Avenue in Culver City.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;27 x 35 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099412
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 41
CARL0005112193
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33879
Subject: Debris--California--Culver City
Buildings--Blast effects--California--Culver City
Explosions--California--Culver City
Culver City (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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