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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated November 5, 1963 partially reads, "It was 1913 again today in Sylmar. Crowds hushed, a signal was given, and water once again gushed down the cascades as it did 50 years ago. The 50th anniversary commemoration of the opening of the Owens River Aqueduct was expected to draw a large number of officials and aqueduct workers to the Sylmar site...Three Valley men -- now in their seventies -- were among the construction workers who pushed th $24.5 million project from the Owens River Valley through the desert and the Valley into Los Angeles...Oscar Bouey, 74, who now lives at 14816 Sylvan St., Van Nuys, was a blacksmith and blacksmith's helper from 1908 to 1913. 'When it first started, they called it Bill Mulholland's duck' he said. 'They weren't very enthusiastic about it.' Bouey said the workers got up at 4 a.m., worked 14 hours, then relaxed until bedtime at 8 or 10 p.m. For leisure, they played cards...They worked all day every day of the week. 'But we didn't count that hard work,' he said. 'And we didn't have coffee breaks in those day.'"
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1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Water and Power--Officials and employees Aqueducts--California Aqueducts--California--Anniversaries, etc Water-supply--California Municipal officials and employees--California--Los Angeles Older people--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.)--Anniversaries, etc Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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