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Title
Traffic jams as street car strike continues
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1950
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
Looking west from 6th and Flower streets, showing the autos jammed on Sixth Street due to the street car strike. Additional family autos were pressed into service to get people to work. One auto required 12 minutes to travel one block.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00028868
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5410
CARL0000034636
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8246
Subject
Los Angeles Transit Lines
Strikes and lockouts--Local transit--California--Los Angeles
Pedestrians--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Bunting (Cloth)
Sidewalks--California--Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles
Central business districts--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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