Image / Southernmost of the four Figueroa Street Tunnels under construction, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Southernmost of the four Figueroa Street Tunnels under construction, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 13, 1935
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.
The Figueroa Street Tunnels are a set of four four-lane tunnels that carry northbound traffic on State Route 110 (the Arroyo Seco Parkway) through Elysian Park in Los Angeles.
Photograph of the southernmost of the four Figueroa Street Tunnels under construction, showing the south end with two drift tunnels with an electric tram for removal of sandstone running out of the one on the right. Two men are in a tram car with two men crouching near the car on the right. Four men climb five ladders that are set against the cliff between the tunnels. Lumber is stacked on the left, there are saw horses in front of the ladders and, perhaps, steel rods on the right.
Reported in the article, "New Tunnel Arch Begun: North Figueroa Street Job Forging Ahead at Rapid Pace," Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 1935: A12.
Text from negative sleeve: 1683. Figueroa Street Tunnel (4th one built). Aug. 13, '35. [stamped:] Aug 22 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10042
ark:/21198/zz002ddsqd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Arroyo Seco Parkway (Calif.)
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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