Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
1 image. Cement truck wreck in San Pedro, 12 July 1958. Failure of brakes to hold (Barbara street near 37th street in San Pedro). Supplementary material reads: "Gershon. City desk. Caption only. Cement truck. Spilled cement: This is what followed failure of brakes to hold stalled ready-mix cement truck when driver stalled engine gearing down on a 30-percent climb on Barbara Street near 37th Street, San Pedro. Driver, Raymond Blake, suffered cut elbow and sprained back. Six tons of cement in mixer was to [sic] much weight for truck's brakes, police said".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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