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DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m4548
title: World's largest mobile offshore platform, San Francisco, 1958

description: Photograph. "12/15/58 -- San Francisco: The world's largest mobile offshore platform, George F. Ferris, just clears the Golden Gate Bridge here 12/15 as it heads for Los Angeles where it will assemble record-size ocean sewer pipe in 200-feet of water. Without stopping, the huge DeLong platform jacked down its 275-foot legs 57-feet to clear the bridge, then raised them to navigate an offshore shoal. The rig measures 190-feet long and 122-feet wide and weighs 4500-tons." -- caption by jgd at head of photograph.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m4549
title: Drawing of world's largest pipe rig, Los Angeles, 1958

description: Photograph of a drawing. "4500-ton giant -- World's largest pipe rig arrived here yesterday for work on the Hyperion sewer. The huge platform measures 120 by 200 feet and stands 275 feet high. Its winches can lay pipe in 195 foot lengths, working in water 200 feet deep. The giant rig cost $3,500,000." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 23 December 1958. Coy Watson reorder no: F367-1
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m4550
title: World's largest mobile offshore platform, San Francisco, 1958

description: Photograph. "San Francisco, Calif. 12/15/58 -- World's largest mobile offshore platform, 'George F. Ferris,' just clears the Golden Gate Bridge as it heads for Los Angeles where it will assemble record-size ocean sewer pipe in 200-feet of water. Without stopping, huge DeLong platform jacked down its legs 57 feet to clear the bridge, then quickly raised them to clear offshore shoal. Hyperion Construction is the contractor on the $20-million sewer outlet project." -- typed note attached to verso. "Dec. 16 1958" -- stamped on verso
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m4552
title: World's largest mobile offshore platform, San Francisco, 1958

description: Photograph. "San Francisco, Dec. 15 -- Tight squeeze -- Seemingly towering high above the deck of the Golden Gate Bridge, this ungainly barge with towering legs proceeds on its way towards the open sea. The craft, a 4,500-ton offshore mobile platform, said to be the world's largest, had to lower its 270-foot towers 57 feet to squeeze under the bridge. The towers, which will eventually serve as legs reaching to the ocean floor, were raised again after passing the bridge to avoid grounding on the shallows before reaching the ocean. Barge will be used first in laying sewer pipe off Los Angeles and later in offshore oil drilling." -- caption by foot of photograph.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m4553
title: Spectators and media personnel at hearing on Hyperion sewer plant, Los Angeles, 1951

description: Photograph. "Hearing room -- In this small chamber, crowded with spectators, TV and radio men, photographers and reporters, the $41,000,000 Hyperion plant fact-finding quiz is held and will be resumed today." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 31 July 1951.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m4554
title: Hyperion sewage treatment power and blower plant ending construction, Los Angeles, 1950

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the power and blower plant under construction in the Hyperion sewage treatment plant where nine 1,600 horsepower generators will be driven by gas processed on the site from sewage treatment, 13 February 1950
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m4556
title: Off duty sand hogs at portal of sewer tunnel, Los Angeles, 1936

description: Photograph. "Sand hogs off duty -- Crew of PWA workers at the portal of the huge 7 mile sewer being constructed beneath the Palos Verdes Hills, Los Angeles County, California, with a Public Works Administration grant." -- typed note attached to verso. "Received Examiner reference library, Jul. 27 1936" -- stamped on verso.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3619
title: J.A. Lindhardt, examines the ornate street light fixtures, Los Angeles, 1959

description: Photograph. "Ornate street lights -- relics of gingerbread era -- H.J. Lindhardt, Bureau of Street Lighing, examines fixtures." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 4 October 1959.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3000
title: Rubber road installation along Figueroa St., Los Angeles, 1952

description: Photograph. "Los Angeles, 8/27/52 -- The city of Los Angeles became the first city on the west coast to use natural rubber roads when a Bureau of Street Maintenance crew started putting down a stretch of this type highway at the corner of Figueroa Street and Venice Boulevard. -- This particular road laying is attacting nation-wide attention in that it is being done in conjunction with the 58th Annual Public Works Congress being held in Los Angeles this week. -- Actually the visiting officials from all parts of the country, who are watching the operation with keen interest, will not see anything very different than the laying of an average road. The same equipment and techniques are used as though it were a road without rubber. The difference is in the performance. According to Mr. Harry K. Fisher, engineer from the Natural Rubber Bureau, Washington D.C. who acted as consultant to the City of Los Angeles in today's project, rubber roads give every indication of lasting longer with less repair. -- Mr. Fisher pointed out, 'The natural rubber particles used in the Los Angeles strip of rubber road are the same type as those used in a Dutch road just outside of Amsterdam that has now been down for about 15 years with no repairs whatsoever.'" -- typed noted attached to verso.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3002
title: Hope Holiday & Arch Field change Hope Street sign, Los Angeles, 1960

description: Lightly retouched photograph. "There's a purpose to this 'madness' -- a charitable one -- Hope Holiday changes Hope Street name, with Arch Field helping. -- Street now 'Hope Sunday Drive' -- Hope Street temporarily became 'Hope Sunday Drive' Thursday. -- Actress Hope Holiday, assisted by Arch L. Field, vice president of the Los Angeles Board of Public Works, switched a street sign at Wilshire Boulevard to call attention to this Sunday's door-to-door fund raising drive for the City of Hope. -- Field observed the city once had a trio of streets named Faith, Hope and Charity. Only Hope remains, he added, the other names giving way to Fower and Grand. -- The City of Hope;s one-day drive throughout the Southland is to raise $1,000,000 to carry on the fight against catastrophic diseases and expand the Medical Center program of free patient care, research and medical education." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 3 June 1960.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3024
title: Grand Pre Boulevard South street sign and street light, 1959

description: Photograph of a close-up of Grand Pre Boulevard South street sign and street light. "A Los Angeles street by any other name might not be so hard to find. -- Just ask a letter carrier where Walnut is. -- There are 36 Walnuts in various combinations with street, avenue, boulevard, lane, drive, way, place, road, circle and path according to Edmund G. Passler, head of the city's street name division. His duty is to prevent any more duplications creeping in when new subdivisions are filed. -- There are also 36 Washingtons, 28 Prospects, 27 Maples, 17 Ramonas and 26 Olives to say nothing of the various Oranges such as Orange circle, Orange cove, Orangecrest, Orangedale, Orangethorpe, grove, knoll, park, tree and wood. -- There are also some fancy names on the city maps such as Tigertail road, Deerbrook lane, Silver Bow, Golden Bough drive, Pleasure way, Plenty street, Happy lane and Honeymoon street. -- Substitution -- Passler has a collection of names to substitute when subdivision names fail to meet specifications that they be easy to spell, to pronounce and don't sound like another one. -- The names were taken off of Pull[...] [...] aviation parts catalogs, missiles [...] fish and plants and people[...] [...] Playa Del Rey".... -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated, 16 February 1959.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3026
title: Deane Thasher stands at California's center of population, Van Nuys, 1954

description: Photograph. "On the spot of California's new center of population -- Van Nuys Boulevard and Vanowen Street, Van Nuys -- stands Deane Thasher. Southerly shift reflects gain in Southland growth." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 7 January 1954.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3027
title: Rubber road installation along Figueroa St., Los Angeles, 1952

description: Photograph. "Los Angeles, 8/27/52 -- The city of Los Angeles became the first city on the west coast to use natural rubber roads when a Bureau of Street Maintenance crew started putting down a stretch of this type highway at the corner of Figueroa Street and Venice Boulevard. -- This particular road laying is attacting nation-wide attention in that it is being done in conjunction with the 58th Annual Public Works Congress being held in Los Angeles this week. -- Actually the visiting officials from all parts of the country, who are watching the operation with keen interest, will not see anything very different than the laying of an average road. The same equipment and techniques are used as though it were a road without rubber. The difference is in the performance. According to Mr. Harry K. Fisher, engineer from the Natural Rubber Bureau, Washington D.C. who acted as consultant to the City of Los Angeles in today's project, rubber roads give every indication of lasting longer with less repair. -- Mr. Fisher pointed out, 'The natural rubber particles used in the Los Angeles strip of rubber road are the same type as those used in a Dutch road just outside of Amsterdam that has now been down for about 15 years with no repairs whatsoever.'" -- typed noted attached to verso.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3025
title: Hollywood marking sign with seal of the City of Los Angeles, 1960

description: Photograph, slightly retouched, of a Hollywood sign with Los Angeles City seal. "It looks good to Patricia Eischen -- And everyone will know they're in Hollywood. -- Signs identifying the many communities that form Los Angeles will be installed on all major streets and highways leading to those districts under an order approved by the City Traffic Commission. -- The signs, white reflectorized letters on a blue background and bearing the Los Angeles city seal at the top center, will be manufactured in the city-woned sign factory, it was explained yesterday by S.S. Taylor, general manager of the Traffic Department [...] '[...] such situations develop.' -- Taylor said local Chambers of Commerce have been trying to get permission from the city to install name signs for many years but permission has been denied. -- Signs now will all be uniform and will identify the community as part of Los Angeles. They will be mounted at the curbs, in center islands and sometimes over the center of a street, Taylor said." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 1 March 1960.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3020
title: Curb height measured at 13½ inches with ruler and hand, Los Angeles, 1953

description: Photograph of a 13½-inch high curbstone. "Looking around with Harry Lang -- Detroit's jibes at L.A. curbstones draw sharp retort right back -- Today, 'Looking around' leaps fearlessly to defend LA's fair name against calumny, detraction and belittlement from (of ALL places!) Detroit. Let me tell you this, Detroit: What we have here in LA, we HAVE! -- and let no Detroiter say we haven't. -- I'm talking about curbstones. And I don't mean those runty, little, niddling, chickensized curbs like in Detroit. I mean fine, noble, upstanding, out-west-where-men-are-men-sized curbs. ¿ Curbstones that'll  take on and crumple ANY car made in ANY Detroit factory! Curbstones that'll take second place to NO cliff in all Michigan! -- It's all because of this plea from Mrs. Bertha Worthington of 5022 Coolidge Avenue, Culver City, whose daughter Gladys is ill in the Herman Kiefer Hospital in Detroit, and facing a relapse because the other patients (all Detroiters, mind you!) are calling her a liar for asserting that LA has curbstones 'a foot high.' Pleads Mrs. W. 'Help my daughter! I know The Examiner can do anything, so can you help her against these Detroiters?' -- All right, Mrs. W; all right, Gladys. All right, you puny-minded Detroiters! A half block from the Examiner Building, at the LA Chamber of Commerce headquarters, our cameraman took this picture. That's an LA curb. That's a 12-inch ruler standing against it. Sidewalk level is 13½ inches above street level. So Gladys is a liar, is she? And that's at 12th and Broadway, virtually the heart of LA; elsewhere in LA, you'll find curbs even higher. Detroit will ALL its auto-factories can't make a car an LA curb somewhere can't crumple! And one final word: Out here, when you curb your dong, be sure he's a Great Dane¿! -- P.S. -- And now I just KNOW that some damtexan will tell me that in Texas, you have to ring for an elevator to get up onto the sidewalk!)" -- Examiner Clipping attached to verso, dated 2 March 1953.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3023
title: Old and new street signs, Los Angeles, 1960

description: Photograph of signage at the corner of Olympic Boulevard and South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles. The May Company can be seen in the distance, and a city parking enforcer is riding to the left of the parked car. "Arrow points out the difference in old, new street signs -- old one (lower) tends to fade into the background. New one shows clearly. -- Now you can see where you are! -- L.A. Gets new street signs -- One of the most frustrating experiences for the urban motorist is driving blocks beyond the street where he wants to turn. -- Yet this happens thousands of times daily in cities the size of Los Angeles because corner street signs can be read by most drivers from only a short distance. -- The Los Angeles City Traffic Department is correcting the situation with [...] [...]ers, made up of three-foot-high white plastic letters and attached to the traffic lane surface with a mastic, now are in use along Wilshire Boulevard from Normandie Avenue to Wilton Place. -- City Traffic Manager S.S. (Sam) Taylor said his department is studying motorist reaction to the signs and their physical durability. [...] which at night, will reflect headlight beams. -- Taylor said the plastic which will last nearly 10 times longer than painted street markings, may, in the future, be used for school zone warnings and 'tear drop' arrows marking turn lanes." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 28 December 1960.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3022
title: Autos on Los Feliz Rd., Glendale, held up while freight train passes, 1953

description: Photograph. "'Bottleneck'  -- Autos traveling east on Los Feliz Road in Glendale are held up while freight train passes. A grade separation was proposed as far back as 1923 and still remains unbuilt. Highway underpass is now planned." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 25 January 1953. "Traffic halted, tempers rage at antique railroad crossing -- Scenes like this will be forgotten by motorists on Los Feliz Boulevard." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 29 July 1957.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3021
title: Los Feliz Blvd. bridge allows trains to pass without interrupting auto traffic, Los Angeles, 1957

description: Photograph. "Never the train shall meet automobile traffic here -- New bridge spans six lanes of street, completely eliminating old bottleneck." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 28 July 1957.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3013
title: White letters four feet high "advertise" spelling error on street, Los Angeles, 1949

description: Photograph of street sign spelling error "Stop hhre" in Hollywood-Silverlake area. "No (e)ras(e)r? -- Som(e) on(e) forgot som(e)thing wh(e)n th(e) Traffic (E)ngin(ee)ring D(e)partm(e)nt's sign-paint(e)rs post(e)d this warning at T(e)mple Str(ee)t and Virgil. Whit(e) l(e)tt(e)rs four f(ee)t high 'adv(e)rtis(e)' sp(e)lling (e)rror!" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 27 December 1949.; Streetscape. Camera direction: 214 degrees from due north. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3019
title: City workers paving around streetcar tracks, Los Angeles, 1936

description: Photograph. "At work on a street paving job -- City workers must keep their material flaming as they pave round streetcar tracks." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 20 July 1936. Safeway in background.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3018
title: Sinkhole on Cushdon Avenue at Overland Drive from water main burst, Los Angeles, 1948

description: Photograph. "Washout -- This large section of street collapsed yesterday at Cushdon Avenue and Overland Drive after a 12-inch water main burst. Workmen are shown repairing the break. Householders were without any water for a few hours." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 20 November 1948.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3016
title: Mysterious upswelling of Opp street above curb, Wilmington, 1946

description: Photograph. "Surprising uprising -- George Applegate measures mysterious swelling of Opp Street in Wilmington. Residents were shocked yesterday morning to discover they were living in 'hill country.' Street is seven inches above the curbing. Officials are investigating." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 4 June 1946.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3012
title: City Employee Alex C. Fry puts up a new right turn traffic sign, 1946

description: Photograph. "Stop first! -- City Employee Alex C. Fry puts up a new right turn traffic sign. Now, right turns against the red light are permissible ONLY where these signs are displayed." -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 8 February 1946; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3010
title: "Discount Street" sign originally intended to read "Viscount Street", Los Angeles, 1958

description: Photograph. "On the original tract map, the street name was shown as 'Viscount Street.' But, when eleven families moved into their new homes they were surprised to find the sign on the corner post reading 'Discount Street.' Somebody pulled a booboo. So, Mrs. M.J. Balma of 3301 Discount, Alhambra -- half of the street is in that community, the other in Los Angeles -- circulated a petition to have the name changed. Yesterday, the homeowners announced that Alhambra had approved the petition, but now they need action from Los Angeles. 'It just wouldn't do to have one section as 'Viscount' and the other remain 'Discount,'' one homeowner commented. 'Besides, we're getting tired of being dubbed '20 per cent Alley' by our friends and neighbors.'" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 12 Febraury 1958.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3009
title: Close-up of street sign for West Happy Lane, 8000 West, Hollywood Hills, 1959

description: Photograph of street sign for West Happy Lane, 8000 West in the Hollywood Hills off Laurel Canyon Boulevard. "A Los Angeles street by any other name might not be so hard to find. -- Just ask a letter carrier where Walnut is. -- There are 36 Walnuts in various combinations with street, avenue, boulevard, lane, drive, way, place, road, circle and path according to Edmund G. Passler, head of the city's street name division. His duty is to prevent any more duplications creeping in when new subdivisions are filed. -- There are also 36 Washingtons, 28 Prospects, 27 Maples, 17 Ramonas and 26 Olives to say nothing of the various Oranges such as Orange circle, Orange cove, Orangecrest, Orangedale, Orangethorpe, grove, knoll, park, tree and wood. -- There are also some fancy names on the city maps such as Tigertail road, Deerbrook lane, Silver Bow, Golden Bough drive, Pleasure way, Plenty street, Happy lane and Honeymoon street. -- Substitution -- Passler has a collection of names to substitute when subdivision names fail to meet specifications that they be easy to spell, to pronounce and don't sound like another one. -- The names were taken off of Pull[...] [...] aviation parts catalogs, missiles [...] fish and plants and people[...] [...] Playa Del Rey".... -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated, 16 February 1959.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3004
title: Close-up of street sign for Tigertail Road, Brentwood Hills, 1959

description: Photograph of a close-up of street sign for Tigertail Road, which runs north-south in the Brentwood Hills between Canna Road and Kenter Avenue. "A Los Angeles street by any other name might not be so hard to find. -- Just ask a letter carrier where Walnut is. -- There are 36 Walnuts in various combinations with street, avenue, boulevard, lane, drive, way, place, road, circle and path according to Edmund G. Passler, head of the city's street name division. His duty is to prevent any more duplications creeping in when new subdivisions are filed. -- There are also 36 Washingtons, 28 Prospects, 27 Maples, 17 Ramonas and 26 Olives to say nothing of the various Oranges such as Orange circle, Orange cove, Orangecrest, Orangedale, Orangethorpe, grove, knoll, park, tree and wood. -- There are also some fancy names on the city maps such as Tigertail road, Deerbrook lane, Silver Bow, Golden Bough drive, Pleasure way, Plenty street, Happy lane and Honeymoon street. -- Substitution -- Passler has a collection of names to substitute when subdivision names fail to meet specifications that they be easy to spell, to pronounce and don't sound like another one. -- The names were taken off of Pull[...] [...] aviation parts catalogs, missiles [...] fish and plants and people[...] [...] Playa Del Rey".... -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated, 16 February 1959.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m2997
title: Close-up of Honey Drive street sign, corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Hollywood Hills, 1959

description: Photograph of Honey Drive street sign, at the corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills. "A Los Angeles street by any other name might not be so hard to find. -- Just ask a letter carrier where Walnut is. -- There are 36 Walnuts in various combinations with street, avenue, boulevard, lane, drive, way, place, road, circle and path according to Edmund G. Passler, head of the city's street name division. His duty is to prevent any more duplications creeping in when new subdivisions are filed. -- There are also 36 Washingtons, 28 Prospects, 27 Maples, 17 Ramonas and 26 Olives to say nothing of the various Oranges such as Orange circle, Orange cove, Orangecrest, Orangedale, Orangethorpe, grove, knoll, park, tree and wood. -- There are also some fancy names on the city maps such as Tigertail road, Deerbrook lane, Silver Bow, Golden Bough drive, Pleasure way, Plenty street, Happy lane and Honeymoon street. -- Substitution -- Passler has a collection of names to substitute when subdivision names fail to meet specifications that they be easy to spell, to pronounce and don't sound like another one. -- The names were taken off of Pull[...] [...] aviation parts catalogs, missiles [...] fish and plants and people[...] [...] Playa Del Rey".... -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated, 16 February 1959.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
DOI: 10.25549/examiner-m3618
title: Studio photographer shooting a couple kissing on the back of a trolley car, 1943

description: Photograph of a photographer, in a studio, photographing a couple kissing on a set appearing to be the back of a trolley car. "Tokyo Special, let's go -- Los Angeles California Limited -- [...]moon Express" -- Examiner clipping attached to verso, dated 3 May 1943.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography.