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Title: Victim of progress
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 caption dated August 13, 1958 reads, "This 30-year-old house at Moorpark street and Colbath avenue long has been considered serious bottleneck for traffic on Moorpark where it juts out into the roadway. Some also considered it a monument to Valley pioneers who built it by hand with boulders carried from the Tujunga Wash. Traffic and progress held sway and it was decided to destroy the building."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00046767
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d043_f16_i14
CARL0000050596
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41251
Subject: Stone houses--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles)
Sidewalks--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles)
Trees--California--Los Angeles
Moorpark Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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