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Know Your City No.248 Southern Pacific railroad freight yard with Los Angeles skyline in background

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Title: Know Your City No.248 Southern Pacific railroad freight yard with Los Angeles skyline in background
Date Created and/or Issued: July 23, 1956
1956-07-23
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: If you're wondering why these Know Your City photos are getting easier, it's because the series is coasting to the finish. Going to wind it up Wednesday with No.250. Surely you recognized today's--the Southern Pacific freight yards out between N Broadway and N Spring St. Principal clue, of course, was the city's No.1 landmark in the background, the City Hall tower.
KNOW YOUR CITY, NO.248 -- We'll level with you; this isn't the Rose Gardens at Exposition Park. It's a freight yard. But Los Angeles has lots of them. Problem: which one? Off the track? For the correct answer, see Page 18, Part l.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b257_95950KB-1
ark:/21198/zz0002t8cg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Railroads--Yards
Transportation
Railroads--Freight-cars
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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