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Bar, a bomb and a blast!

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Order Number	00099374
Title	Bar, a bomb and a blast!
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 41
Date	1949
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;19 x 25 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm.
Notes	Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Description	Photograph caption dated February 14, 1949 reads, "This cocktail bar in the 3800 block on Whittier boulevard was a mass of blackened ruins today after a fire believed of incendiary bomb origin blasted the place. Thomas Bosque, who was knocked out of his bed in an adjoining building, said he saw a black sedan speed away under cover of darkness shortly after the fire. Authorities believed a bomb was tossed from the car Bosque saw."
Subject	Bars (Drinking establishments)--California--East Los Angeles. Debris--California--East Los Angeles. Explosions--California--East Los Angeles. Explosives--California--East Los Angeles. Lost architecture--California--East Los Angeles. Whittier Boulevard (East Los Angeles, Calif.). East Los Angeles (Calif.). Los Angeles Evening Herald and 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