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New Palisades landslide, 1958.

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Title	New Palisades landslide, 1958.
Description	4 images. New Palisades landslide, 31 March 1958. Warren Harding (truck driver); Ozzie Langord (boss); Thomas Moody (cat driver); James Summers (foreman).; Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1958-03-31. Reporter: Caswell. Assignment: New Palisades landslide. 56: Still dazed, workmen stand in front of the 13 vehicles damaged by slide. From left are a gasoline truck-trailer almost entirely buried; a partially buried cat (bulldozer) and an up-ended pickup truck. 55: Another view of the above 3 vehicles. 52: James Summers, 37, (right) a state highway maintenance foreman and one of last to confer with superintendant V.O. Sheff, talks with a deputy sheriff at the scene 'Mountain' at left (background) is part of a huge slide. 23: Summers is at left (hands on hips) in this view. 30: James Thompson, 30, of Sun Valley, (left) and Dean Stever, 23, of Canoga Park, truck drivers compare notes on narrow escape as they stand behind their partially burried, partially overtuned trucks, (background). 7: James Summers, (left, glasses) 37, one of state highway miantenance foremen, who escaped with his life shortly after walking away froom his superior, V.O. Sheff, believed buried in slide. 9/60: A district highway superintendent was believed buried and 13 vehicles were either buried or swept aside as an estimated 400,000 tons of earth slipped across the Pacific Coast Highway between Santa Monica Canyon and Sunset Blvd. in a new slide that may require weeks to clear. The slide occured some 30 minutes before the roadway was to be re-opened to controlled traffic following a smaller slide las Thu. 22: Pickup truck partially buried. 3/4: Truckdriver Frank Kellershon, right, inspects truck buried. kellershon said he heard Sheff Say, 'opps I've stumbled'. 29: Pickup truck, one of the smaller of 13 vehicles damaged in slide, looked like this after it was hauled from embankment in which it partially was buried".
Coverage date	1958-03-31
Photographer	Gaze
Publisher (of the Digital Version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1958-03-31
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	4 photographs : negatives, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographs
Language	English
Sleeve Number	12322-030
Legacy Record ID	examiner-m15598
Part of subcollection	Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Part of collection	Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights	University of Southern California
Access Conditions	Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu; phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343
Repository Name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository Email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	EXM-N-12322-030~1; EXM-N-12322-030~2; EXM-N-12322-030~3; EXM-N-12322-030~4

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