Copy image: Git a hoss - or, better still, get a row boat. That's the best means of getting around during the height of the flood in Southern California. The photograph shows an auto park on valley boulevard, near El Monte. The rising waters caught the cars and held them prisoners -- they couldn't float away. Acme Photo. Probably an image from the 1934 flood on the San Gabriel River.
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