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Title: Street car crashes into truck on Macy Street, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: August 12, 1933
1933-08-12
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Macy Street was renamed Cesar Chavez Avenue. The bridge mentioned in the negative sleeve would have been the Macy Street Viaduct between Mission Road and Vignes Street.
A truck and street car are both stopped and a large crowd has gathered, among them police officers.
Text from negative sleeve: 1630--- street car crash-truck (Macy st just west of L. A. river Bridge) [stamped:] AUG 22 1935
Handwritten on negative: Crash on Macy street
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9981
ark:/21198/zz002dj515
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Trucks
Traffic accidents--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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