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Title: Gasoline explosion on Venice Boulevard
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1976
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.
An excavation machine on a state street-widening project struck a buried Standard Oil Co. 8-inch pressurized gasoline pipe. The gasoline shot up, formed a mist, and then exploded. All seven buildings on the Venice Blvd. block were demolished.
Photograph caption reads: "Explosion and fire, Venice Blvd." Photograph dated June 16, 1976.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00079298
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b007_f4_i15
CARL0000080062
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24791
Subject: Explosions--California--Los Angeles
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Buildings--Blast effects--California--Los Angeles
West Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Standard Oil Company of California

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