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Know Your City No.182 Statues of saber-tooth tigers at La Brea Tar Pits Los Angeles, 1956

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Title: Know Your City No.182 Statues of saber-tooth tigers at La Brea Tar Pits Los Angeles, 1956
Contributor: Beck, Hermann T., $d 1895-1992
Roop, Joseph L. (Joseph Lee), $d 1869-1932
Date Created and/or Issued: May 18, 1956
1956-05-18
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: The sculpture was created by Hermann T. Beck, based on drawings by Joseph L. Roop.
ANSWER: This statue of a couple of unfriendly saber-tooth tigers is in the famous La Brea Pits in Hancock Park on Wilshire Blvd. That pool of smooth black stuff behind them is one of the eeringly bubbling pits of fossil-bearing asphalt deposits of the Pleistocene Epoch. (Got all that from a card tacked up on the fence.)
KNOW YOUR CITY, NO.182 -- Hold that tiiiger! Determined to beat the tar out of each other, these two animals are putting the bite on each other in a historic spot that is near a busy boulevard. If that isn't enough, see Page 28, Part ll.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b257_95950GT
ark:/21198/zz0002t7mm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Animal sculpture--California--Los Angeles
Arts
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Animals
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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