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Order Number	00071957
Title	Air raid drill
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 8090.
Date	1952
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	A shelter sign, with arrow, points to the garage at City Hall where people, smiling but orderly, pass into during an emergency drill. A guard stands at the entrance. Photo caption reads: "An exception to the complacent attitude of most grownups toward the raid drill were these people at City Hall. They marched orderly to shelter in garage-basement. Thousands of persons in the downtown area said they hardly could hear the alarm. Councilman Kenneth Hahn said it "sounded like the meow of an anemic cat.". Photo dated: Oct. 2, 1952.
Subject	Emergency drills--California--Los Angeles. Fallout shelters--California--Los Angeles. Spring Street (Los Angeles, Calif.). Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection