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Title: Topsy turvy frame
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: 1958
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
This Chevrolet assembly plant opened in 1947 and produced the Chevrolet Corvair, Chevrolet Nova, Chevrolet Camaro, Chevrolet full-size models and the Pontiac Firebird. The plant was closed in 1992 after the production of Camaro and Firebird vehicles was moved to Sainte-The´re`se Assembly in Quebec. In 1998, the facility was razed and replaced with a large retail and industrial complex, known as The Plant. GM continues to operate a car-testing facility nearby.
Photograph caption dated February 24,1958 reads, "Front brake drums and front suspension have been added. Frame is automatically turned over from upside-down position so that rear axle can be added next as Chevrolet-in-making continues production line tour."; See images #00114122 through #00114126 for all photos in this series, under the main caption, "Off this assembly line comes the Chevrolet."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00114124
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d015_f9_i15
CARL0005292795
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/47768
Subject: General Motors Corporation.--Chevrolet Motor Division
Automobile factories--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--Parts--California--Los Angeles
Automobile industry workers--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Interiors--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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