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Hollywood Bowl with brush fire burning the hills behind the stage, Los Angeles, 1929

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Title: Hollywood Bowl with brush fire burning the hills behind the stage, Los Angeles, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: October 24, 1929
1929-10-24
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Description: The photo appears with the article: "FIRE TAKES PILGRIMAGE PLAYHOUSE: Cahuenga Pass Brush Blaze Perils Hollywood Bowl and Near-by Homes," 25 Oct. 1929: A1, photo on A3.
Text from newspaper caption: Battle on Stage: Hollywood's northern residential section on each side of Cahuenga pass near Highland avenue was imperiled gravely by a brush fire that swept down from the summit yesterday afternoon...The picture below shows the flaming line on the west side of the pass road moving swiftly toward Hollywood Bowl. It was stopped directly back of the Bowl's shell shortly after the picture was taken...
Text from negative sleeve: Hollywood Bowl. Brush fire. 1929.
Handwritten on negative: Hollywood Bowl-Threatened by fire
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3706_G1946
ark:/21198/zz0002p1pz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Wildfires--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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