Survey wreckage after water heater explosion spread havoc
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated March 25, 1949 reads, "Mrs. Frank Wilson and sister, Mrs. Harry McCombs, look over debris with neighbors." The article partially reads, "A laundry boiler explosion that wreaked havoc with a Van Nuys neighborhood and narrowly missed spelling death for a mother and her baby was under arson squad investigation today. Minutes before the blast tore through a self-service laundry at 6416 Vesper Ave., last night, Mrs. Frank Wilson with her 14-month-old daughter, Beverly, had left the structure in which they rent an apartment. There was no one in the building when a defective water heater in a stucco leanto shed at the rear exploded....Fire officials said it was miraculous that no one was injured in the vicinity since the blast was felt for many blocks and stucco, timber and other debris was hurled several hundred feet."; See images #00113605 through #00113607 for all photos in this series.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Accidents--California--Los Angeles Steam-boiler explosions Self-service laundries--California--Los Angeles Debris--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Night photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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