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
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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. This photograph appears with the article, “One-Man Electric Car Runs Into Beer Parlor,” Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 1936: 9. Two unidentified men stand among the wreckage of the beer parlor after the street car crash. Boys in the background walk toward what is left of the shop. Text from negative sleeve: 3954--- Wrecked Beer Parlor at Venice Blvd. x Burlington St. Streetcar crash 2-29-36 [stamped:] MAR 12 1936 Text from newspaper caption: [above:] Street car Plunges Into Beer Parlor. [below:] Five persons were injured when a trolley crashed into this beer parlor at Venice Boulevard ad Burlington avenue early yesterday. Photo shows what was left after the car nosed through a plate-glass window. Times photo.
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