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Photograph caption dated January 6, 1956 reads, "Crew from city's Recreation and Park Department erects fence in Griffith Park, closing way to 50 earth-removing workers building Golden State Freeway. H. J. Yowit, general manager of Vinnell Co., contractors, is shown between fences. Fenced in is Glen MacAfee, foreman of earth removing crew."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Recreation and Parks Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Recreation and Parks--Officials and employees Vinnell Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Employees Men--California--Los Angeles Express highways--California, Southern Fences--California--Los Angeles Barbed wire Nails and spikes--California--Los Angeles Parks--California--Los Angeles Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Interstate 5 Valley Times Collection photographs
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