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Title: Whittier, looking southwest
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
The Sundown Drive-in opened in August 1954 as Hugh Bruen's Sundown Drive-In at 2322 E. Washington Boulevard. It closed in September 1990, and after years of operating as a swap meet, it was demolished in 1999.
Aerial view of the city of Whittier; view is looking southwest. The large road crossing at bottom left corner is Whittier Boulevard, the drive-in near center top is on Washington Boulevard (middle left, curving to upper right); Santa Fe Springs Road is behind the drive-in, from upper left to middle top. Photograph dated August 28, 1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00094357
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 400-1
CARL0005096244
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/7006
Subject: Sundown Drive-In (Whittier, Calif.)
Drive-in theaters--California--Whittier
Warehouses--California--Whittier
Dwellings--California--Whittier
Streets--California--Whittier
Parking lots--California--Whittier
Lost architecture--California--Whittier
Whittier (Calif.)--Aerial views
Whittier (Calif.)
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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