Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Two police officers and a few people stand in front of a derailed street car after it collided with another street car at the intersection of 6th and Main streets. Related to the article, "Street Cars In Collision: One Knocked Off Its Tracks: P.E. and Yellow Line Trams Crash at Sixth and Main; Thirty-five Shaken Up," Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 1935: A1. Handwritten on negative: 6th & Main. Nov/23/35. Text from newspaper caption: Collision of two street cars at busy intersection of Sixth and Main streets last night knocked this southbound F line car off the tracks and tipped it at a crazy angle where it blocked traffic in all directions. Two of the thirty-five passengers were slightly injured. This photograph shows how the damaged Los Angeles Railway car rested after the crash with an eastbound Pacific Electric car in a mix-up over signals. Text from negative sleeve: 2957. Street car overturned. 6th & Main. Nov/22/35. [Stamped:] Nov 28 1935.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10721 ark:/21198/zz002h9t40
Subject
Street railroad accidents--California--Los Angeles
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