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Title
End of drainage ditch play days
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
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
1948
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; Photograph is torn at the upper right corner.
Roscoe was renamed Sun Valley in 1948 and the Basilone Homes project was demolished in the late-1950s.
Photograph caption dated May 21, 1948 reads, "Rubbish-strewn puddles will be replaced by play areas at Basilone homes." The article partially reads, "'A puddle or a playground?' This was the question posed by Byron Pedersen, former chairman of the planning committee for recreation areas at the Basilone Homes in Roscoe. 'Residents of the housing project decided on a playground....' Project residents recently staged a bazaar. They raised more than $1000 with which they ordered swings and slides. Today four units have been installed and the more than 1000 youngsters can start coming out of water-filled ditches and rock-strewn fields where they have been forced to play in the past."; See images #00115234 through #00115235 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00115234
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f33_i16
CARL0005309901
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/49064
Subject
Basilone Homes Housing Project (Sun Valley, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Public housing--California--Sun Valley (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Sun Valley (Los Angeles)
Ditches--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Debris--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Lost architecture--California--Sun Valley (Los Angeles)
Sun Valley (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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