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To lighten up the the misery caused by the greatest rainstorm and heaviest rainfall in Southern California history, Herald-Express photographer Coy Watson Jr. (left) and reporter Fred Eldridge attempt a boat expedition from Hyperion Ave. to Long Beach--a gay sidelight to the tragedy. This storm was the inducement to begin concrete channelization of the L.A. River

Salvation Army provides coffee and other assistance for victims in Compton after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake.

Panoramic picture of the wreck of the No. 1 street car of the Los Angeles Railway at 1st and Hill streets. Five passengers, two crew members and one bystander received injuries. Cross shows where the trolley was supposed to have stopped on the 1st Street downgrade, but the magnetic brakes failed.

An A-bomb blast set off in Nevada at 4:36 a.m., on April 18, 1953, was judged by early risers to have been the most sensational of any seen so far. The blast made the eastern horizon as “bright as day.”

Mudslide covering all eastbound and two of the westbound lanes of the Pomona Freeway, 2˝ miles east of Pico Rivera.

Ashen ruins of Lionel Atwill's elaborate Malibu beach house after fire had swept over it.

New York street film studio set at Universal-International (now Universal) Studios is destroyed by arson fire. Firemen are seen battling the $500,000 blaze.