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Title: Old cars used as sleeping quarters
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
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: Two prospective "tenants" look over jalopy jungle at Fourth and Omar Streets just off L.A.'s skid row. Old cars are used as sleeping quarters at night by homeless men, and city health and police authorities have declared the jalopies will be hauled off. Two cars have been burned up in recent weeks by sleepers, police say. Photo dated: March 26, 1954.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00054753
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 12405.
CARL0000059723
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21531
Subject: Skid row
Homeless persons
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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