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Title: Flooded Firestone Blvd. in Downey
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
Publication Information: California.Division of Highways
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.; Oversized photograph.
Cars stop at the edge of a lake that was Firestone Blvd., east of Paramount Blvd., in Downey. Flooded from a recent winter storm, the water is so deep that some roadblocks are almost submerged and people are being ferried in boats. The water extends past the pumps at the Signal gas station, left. Photo dated: Jan., 1952.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 28 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00076192
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Floods.
CARL0000078520
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/115561
Subject: Floods--California--Downey
Storms--California, Southern
Flood damage--California--Downey
Commercial strips--California--Downey
Downey (Calif.)

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