Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the article, "Famous Columns Razed," Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 1934: 7 Text from negative sleeve: California Van Nuys High School Handwritten note from negative sleeve: (just before and just after Grecian [...] entrance fell while building being razed) 7/31/34 Welles Text from newspaper caption: It Looks Like Ruins of Rome--but It's Van Nuys! The stately Grecian columns of Van Nuys High School are shown just before and just after their final destructive collapse yesterday. The columns, which had been photographed and filmed many times, were torn down along with the rest of the building in the school board's program of reconstruction.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10991 ark:/21198/zz002h8xst
Language
English
Subject
Demolition--California--Los Angeles Columns--California--Los Angeles
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