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Title: Street scene, Main Street, El Centro, [1927?]
Date Created and/or Issued: [1927?]
1927
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Street with traffic, parked cars, and pedestrians, with buildings with colonnade at left, signs reading Drugs and Furniture, buildings with arcade at right, banner stretched over road reading "Help Yourself, A Clean Play About Mud"
Possibly related to Los Angeles Times article, “San Diego to El Centro Road Reveals Gain, Widening Mountain Springs Grade Brings Results Indicative of Benefit From Good Highway.” Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 1927. The article states: ... it adds another link to the paved portion of United States Route No. 80, extending from San Diego to Savannah, Ga. ...
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, El Centro
At upper left corner of negative: 1
Handwritten at edge of negative: Main St. West Elcentro
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_0407
0407
ark:/21198/zz002d9p5b
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Transportation
Commercial streets--California--El Centro
Environment
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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