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Know Your City No.53 Waterfall and rock garden located behind the Los Angeles Police Academy in Elysian Park, 1956

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Title: Know Your City No.53 Waterfall and rock garden located behind the Los Angeles Police Academy in Elysian Park, 1956
Date Created and/or Issued: January 9, 1956
1956-01-09
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 Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: ANSWER: You really couldn’t be expected to recognize the scene in the photo, but just to satisfy your curiosity, it is a picturesque rock garden hidden behind the Police Academy in Elysian Park. ("If you minded, you might find a copper" -- wow!)
Declared Historic-Cultural Monument #110 by the City of Los Angeles in 1973.
KNOW YOUR CITY, NO. 53 -- This is really a toughie and, if you think it is Fern Dell in Griffith Park, you couldn’t be wronger. Not too many people have seen this rock garden. Clue: If you mined, you might find copper. Answer on Page3, Part 2.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b257_95950BX
ark:/21198/zz0002t5c1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Gardens--California--Los Angeles
Landmarks
Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Waterfalls--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Police Revolver and Athletic Club
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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