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Title: Street car crashes into beer parlor, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 29, 1936
1936-02-29
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A one-man trolley bounded off the tracks and crashed through the plate-glass window and door of a beer parlor on Venice and Burlington. Five were injured and sent to the hospital, including the conductor.
Another photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “One-Man Electric Car Runs Into Beer Parlor,” Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 1936: 9.
Text from negative sleeve: 3954--- Wrecked Beer Parlor at Venice Blvd. x Burlington St. Streetcar crash 2-29-36 [stamped:] MAR 12 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12973
ark:/21198/zz002hn31s
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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