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Remains of beach house along Pacific Coast Highway after Topanga fire, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Remains of beach house along Pacific Coast Highway after Topanga fire, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa November 24, 1938]
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A smiling woman stands beside a chimney and points at the molten debris below. The wooden stilts of the house are still standing.
Fires swept through Topanga Canyon and the Santa Monica mountains in late November of 1938 when ashes from an old cooking range scattered into nearby grass in Calabasas. Flames jumped the Pacific Coast Highway and burned several homes along the beach north of Santa Monica.
A similar images appears with the headline, “In the Wake of the Brush fire that Ravaged Area Around Topanga Canyon,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov 1938: 18.
Text from negative sleeve: 15198 1938 Topanga Malibu Fire 2
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11908
ark:/21198/zz002h8rsd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fires--California--Los Angeles
Women
Beaches--California--Los Angeles
Theodore Roosevelt International Highway
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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