Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Photograph caption dated February 14, 1949 reads, "This cocktail bar in the 3800 block on Whittier boulevard was a mass of blackened ruins today after a fire believed of incendiary bomb origin blasted the place. Thomas Bosque, who was knocked out of his bed in an adjoining building, said he saw a black sedan speed away under cover of darkness shortly after the fire. Authorities believed a bomb was tossed from the car Bosque saw."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 25 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Bars (Drinking establishments)--California--East Los Angeles Debris--California--East Los Angeles Explosions--California--East Los Angeles Explosives--California--East Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--East Los Angeles Whittier Boulevard (East Los Angeles, Calif.) East Los Angeles (Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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