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Three city employees on gondola-barge retrieving debris from the canals in Venice, Calif., 1971

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Title: Three city employees on gondola-barge retrieving debris from the canals in Venice, Calif., 1971
Contributor: Cormier, Don
Date Created and/or Issued: January 20, 1971
1971-01-20
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: . . . And Not a Soul Singing 'O Sole Mio' These gondoliers of L.A.'s Venice have no customers to sing to, but they keep to a schedule--digging debris from the area's canals. It is a daily task for city employes [sic], who have found such objects as a case of dynamite, a doctor's bag and a motorcycle. While poling their "gondolas" along, there have been a half dozen occasions when they have rescued children who fell into the water.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b671_266547
ark:/21198/zz0002w5mj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Canals--California--Los Angeles
Refuse and refuse disposal--California--Los Angeles County
Lifestyle
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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