"Slow-moving Mountain" / Elysian Park Landslide
Herman J. Schultheis/LAPL
In the first months of 2011, 2012 and 2013 there were singular posts (links below) by
Westcork,
E_R and
Chuckaluck, mentioning a landslide that occurred in Elysian Park in November of 1937. (A couple photos in this post are from these previous postings.)
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=2719
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7234
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...ostcount=12957
from E_R's post/ebay
I discovered a recent online article describing this event and the fact that it became
nationwide news and over a half-million people came to witness it. From the article:
Sensational news reports, printed in papers and broadcast on radio nationwide, described it as a "moving mountain," and tourists came from afar to witness the geologic curiosity. One Oklahoma City police officer took a leave of absence to watch the slide. Two boys hopped freight trains from New York to see it. Some 10,000 sightseers came by the hour. Spectators pressed against police barricades along Riverside Drive, and enterprising vendors worked the throng like a baseball game, hawking peanuts, popcorn, and soda. Some even sold field glasses. Everyone acknowledged that it was a sight to behold, but no one could agree on its cause.
Caption:
Cracks slowly became crevasses, and then eventually the entire hillside slid in one violent moment on the night of Nov. 26. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Caption:
As the landslide crept toward the river, the forest atop the mass remained more or less intact. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive,
LAPL
Riverside Drive and onlookers:
The online article is
HERE. Finally, here's a 40 second video of this news event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6KS...ature=youtu.be