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Title: 100-foot geyser
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Robbins, Jeff
Contributor: 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
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes; Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated October 25, 1963 reads, "A 100-foot geyser, visible for a mile and lasting 15 minutes, douses bystanders and washes car free of charge Thursday at busy Ventura Blvd. and Tujunga Ave. in Studio City. A Los Angeles Bureau of State Maintenance truck and trailer, driven by Adolph Sanderson, 58, 14030 Houston St., Sherman Oaks, pulled away from a curb and sheared off a fire hydrant, causing the gusher."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00125919
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d030_f36_i11
CARL0005430649
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/57637
Subject: Hydrants--California--Los Angeles
Hydrants--Accidents--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Signal lights
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Buildings--California--Studio City (Los Angeles)
Mountains--California, Southern
Streets--California--Studio City (Los Angeles County)
Tujunga Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Ventura Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Studio City (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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