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Excavation event at the Fort Moore Hill entrance to the Broadway Tunnel, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Excavation event at the Fort Moore Hill entrance to the Broadway Tunnel, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
View towards the Broadway Tunnel and Fort Moore Hill from the intersection of Spring Street from the intersection with Sunset Blvd. (now Cesar Chavez Avenue). At the base of the hill a group of people gather around Myers & Co. On a platform cordoned off with a stars and stripes fabric the group of men includes Mayor Frank L. Shaw, and another man speaks into a microphone. Signs read "Myers & Co., Excavating Contractors, MU.6306". A billboard advertisement for the movie "Tarzan and his Mate" dates the photograph to 1934. A second billboard reads "No extra cost for Tetraethyl, the higher anti-knock Leader". A sign on a large house on top of the hill, known as the Banning Mansion, reads "Apartments".
Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles County Buildings
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_5558
ark:/21198/zz002cvm8p
Language: English
Subject: Fort Moore Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Steam shovels
Broadway Tunnel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Shaw, Frank L., 1877-1958
Myers & Co
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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