Parades
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Title: Parade on Main & 20th, 1906
Description: People in costume and horses and wagons decorated with flowers for a parade circa 1906 are located on Main Street south of 20th Street.
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Title: Parade on Figueroa (n.d.)
Description: A parade of decorated horse conveyances on Figueroa Street possibly near 11th Street.
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Title: Shriner's Parade on Central Avenue, c. 1951
Fires, Floods, and Mishaps
Fires
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Title: Shrine Auditorium fire with USC in foreground, January 11, 1920
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Title: Shrine Auditorium fire, 1920
Description: Shrine Auditorium in flames. Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America, Al Malaikah Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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Photographer: Gary Leonard
Title: Buildings torched by rioters, Los Angeles riots, 1992.
Description: Police officers block the street as firemen work to put out fires in several buildings torched by rioters. Photo dated: April 30, 1992.
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Photographer: Gary Leonard
Title: Store burning during L.A. riots, 1992.
Description: Fire fighters pouring water on a burning building on April 30, 1992.
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Photographer: Gary Leonard
Title: Building on fire near Western Ave. 1992.
Description: A building is burning on a street near the intersection of Western Avenue on April 30, 1992, during civil unrest.
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Photographer: Gary Leonard
Title: Public officials on burning Vermont Ave. 1992.
Description: Fire fighters and law enforcement personnel have closed Vermont Avenue, which has numerous burning stores, on April 30, 1992.
Floods
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Title: 36th St. and South Western Avenue during flood, April 7, 1926
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Title: Boating on flooded street, 401 E. 9th Street, 1926
Description: Man in rubber boat on flooded Los Angeles street in 1926. Store seen is located at 401 East 9th Street.
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Title: Flood near restaurant, ca. 1930s
Description: Street flooding threatens King's Tropical Inn restaurant circa the 1930s. [5741 W. Washington Blvd.]
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Title: Flooded West Adams Blvd. , 1933
Description: Wide body of water on West Adams Boulevard during flooding on December 31, 1933.
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Title: Car driving through flooded West Adams Blvd., 1933
Description: Car driving through water on West Adams Boulevard on the last day of December 1933.
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Title: Flooded 6th and Normandie, ca 1930s
Description: Flooded intersection of 6th Street and Normandie Avenue circa the 1930s.
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Title: Flooded intersection, 1940.
Description: A car is driving through the water in the intersection of 12th and Main Streets on December 16, 1940. A total of .18 of an inch of rain fell in Los Angeles and its vicinity.
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Title: Flooded street, 1943
Description: This view, taken on Slauson at Denker Ave., shows motorists struggling slowly through the streets as the rains flooded many sections of the city and stalled traffic. Photo date: January 23, 1943.
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Title: Vehicles stalled in deep flood waters, 1952
Description: Photo shows the abandoned trucks and car, thoroughly stalled in the deep flood waters covering Jefferson Boulevard in Culver City.
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Title: Flood waters on Pico Boulevard, 1958
Description: Motorist are shown driving carefully through the flood waters on Pico Boulevard near Union Avenue.
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Title: Street becomes a lake along Country Club Drive, 1958
Description: Photo shows the flooded street along Country Club Drive near Gramercy Drive. A stalled car sits idle in the middle of the street. No where in this view can you see streets, curbs or walks, all inundated by waters. Fortunately the expensive homes in this area were on high grounds, and not damaged by the the flood waters.
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Title: Baldwin Hills Dam from the air (n.d.)
Description: An aerial view of Baldwin Hills Dam, currently empty. This is a self-contained reservoir, but there appears to be a break in the wall on the far side. [On December 14, 1963, the Baldwin Hills Dam, at the head of Cloverdale Avenue south of Rodeo Road, gave way, with flood waters inundating nearby streets including the Village Green near La Brea and Rodeo Road. The dam was later removed. It was located in what is now Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area.]
Mishaps
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Title: Capsized liquid tank, [n.d.]
Description: Tank for transporting liquid capsized at the gate of the Rosedale Cemetery.
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Title: Fallen tree, 1943
Description: A tree, toppled by the terrific winds that swept through the city early January 23, 1943, lies across Venice Blvd. just west of Crenshaw. Traffic in many sections of the city was slowed by fallen trees.
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Title: Car wrecked by storm, 1943
Description: A tree, uprooted by the heavy winds, crashes onto an automobile parked along the street at 30th Street and University Ave. Photo date: January 23, 1943.
Odds and Ends
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Title: [Soldiers in Exposition Park.] Pershing Day at Sunken Rose Gardens in Exposition Park, Jan. 26, 1920
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Title: Coca-Cola building, 1334 S. Central Ave , late 1930s
Description: The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Los Angeles, located at 1334 S. Central Ave., remodeled from five older warehouses into a streamlined ocean liner by architect Robert V. Derrah in 1936.
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Title: Mastodon skeleton, L.A. County Museum of Natural History, [n.d.]
Description: A group of British journalists inspect a Mastodon skeleton at the L.A. County Museum of Natural History.
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Title: Telegraphone invention, [n.d.]
Description: A new invention, a Telegraphone, is used by a USC coed, wearing the pin of the Zeta Phi Alpha sorority. The instrument seems to be a mixture of a telephone with radio equipment.
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Title: USC rodeo, 1939
Description: University of Southern California Tri-Delts and Chi Phis try out the rodeo game on February 3, 1939. Steer roper coming out on a horse is Dick Wildman. On the ground is Eddie Davis. Left to right on the chute gates are: Nina Jane Cowgill, Ada Jacobs, Baby Lorna Urton from the ranch, Bob Wildman, Gene Logan and Jeanne Godshall.
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Title: Cows graze on Slauson at Central (c. 1930)
Description: Cows graze peacefully under the palm trees next to the J.A. Nadeau Ford dealership on Slauson at Central Avenues. 1100 E. Slauson Blvd.
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Title: [Our own West Adams observatory.] W. A. Clark Observatory, June 15, 1934
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Title: California Piano Supply Co.'s piano, [n.d.].
Description: A giant grand piano marks the entrance of the California Piano Supply Co. Four little girls stand atop the piano while a women on a step ladder plays the giant keyboard. The picture dates from the 1920's or 1930's. In the 1960's the store was renamed the Big Red Piano and an attempt was made to move the building to another location to preserve it, but the building did not survive the move. [The store was located at Venice Blvd. near Western Avenue.]
The Black Dahlia Murder Case
On January 15, 1947, Betty Bersinger was out walking past 3800 S. Norton Avenue, an empty lot a few blocks east of Crenshaw between Rodeo Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (then Santa Barbara) when she saw something white lying in the grass. It was the nude body of a woman, drained of blood and surgically cut in half at the waist. Thus began Los Angeles' most famous unsolved murder. The victim was 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, soon dubbed the Black Dahlia. The location is in Leimert Park, a few blocks south of West Adams. Despite many suspects and numerous confessions, all proved to be false, the crime was never solved. It has been the subject of many books, films, and television programs. The Los Angeles Public Library Photo Database contains more than 80 photographs about the case. We have selected a few that give a feel of the event. For those who want more information here are three websites on the Black Dahlia case:
http://www.bethshort.com/
http://www.prairieghosts.com/beth.html
http://blackdahliasolution.org/
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Title: Black Dahlia murder scene, 1947.
Description: Elizabeth Short's murder is referred to as the "Black Dahlia" case.
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Title: Picture of the Black Dahlia, 1947.
Description: Section of a photograph showing the face of Elizabeth Short.
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Title: Woman who discovered the body
Description: Pictured here on the telephone is the woman, Mrs. John Bersinger, who was walking by a vacant lot and discovered the body.
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Photographer: R.A. Perez
Title: Newspaper headlines on the Black Dahlia
Description: Here four people in a restaurant are looking at the front page of a newspaper carrying an article on the "...watch for the 'Dahlia' killer".
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Title: Mother and family of victim, Black Dahlia case, 1947.
Description: In this picture taken at the police station we see the relatives of the victim seated in the homicide investigation room. The two women are Phoebe Short (mother) and Mrs. Virginia West (sister). Next to Mrs. West is her husband Adrian West. The two men on the left in the picture are Coroner Ben Brown and Chief Deputy Coroner Victor Wallage.
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Title: Black Dahlia killer clips from headline, 1947.
Description: Short's killer clipped the word 'Dahlia' from another headline in order to address the envelope containing Short's personal effects.
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Title: Joseph Dumais, Black Dahlia case, 1947.
Description: This is a photograph of Corporal Joseph Dumais, 29, who allegedly said he had a date with Short on Jan. 9, and also claimed he was secretly married to her.
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Title: Postcards from Black Dahlia killer, 1947.
Description: This photograph shows two of the postcards received by The Evening Herald and Express, supposedly from the killer.
