Flood aftermath (beach area), 1958

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1 image. Flood aftermath (beach area), 21 February 1958. Playa del Rey steam plant damage.; Caption Slip reads: "Photographer: Gaze. Date: 1958-02-20. Assignment: Flood aftermath. note: #58-59-60-57 are latest shots of damage. 58/59/60: View across Vista del Mar and Coast blvd. showing more than half of the intersection now undermined and dropped 15 feet onto beach. In background: Dept Water and Power's $60,000,000 steam plant under construction. (Damage to it: $100,000). Curbing, gutter, pavement and traffic signal lie on beach. In no. #60 A. M. Walker, surveyor for dept. is mapping damage. 59: same view looking south. #62: Scene from the beach shows flow of storm water over broken section of Vista Del Mar at Coast Blvd. Although storm ended, water from broken drain continued to undermine street until today a section of Vistal Del Mar 100 feet long and up to 20 feet in width is torn up. Curbing, gutter and traffic signals also toppled onto the beach. Vista Del Mar will be closed from some days".; Caption slip continues: "Photographer: Gaze... #66: It doesn't matter, anyway, because no one wants to cross the damaged intersection but Special Patrolman J.R. Ricks looks curiously at a pedestrian traffic signal control almost entirely buried in sand at Vista Del Mar and Coast blvd. (The El Segundo City -- Playa Del Rey border). 77/78: There's work ahead for contractors building a giant screen and pump chamber for the Dept. of Water and Power's $60,000,000 Scattergood Steam Plant at Playa del Rey. Three big cranes, two bulldozers and other equipment and machinery were buried to a depth of 20 feet by storm waters, sand, mud and crude oil. (1 pix shows steam plant in background)".

Asset Metadata

Title Flood aftermath (beach area), 1958

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Temporal Subject 1958-02-20

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Language English

Source Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961 (subcollection), Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1958-02-20

Creator Gaze (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m14747

Identifier EXM-N-12300-013~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-92660 (legacy record id), examiner-m14747 (legacy record id), 12300-013 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 92660

Unique identifier UC11724294

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-12300-013~1.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.0 in × 29.1 in at 300dpi
56.0 cm × 73.9 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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