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Flooded Pennzoil Station

March, 1936

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Flooded Pennzoil Station
  • Title
  • Flooded Pennzoil Station
  • Date
  • March, 1936
  • Identifier
  • 20100201-ocl-0301
  • Source Identifier
  • 2009.09
  • Description
  • When the Allegheny River flooded on St. Patrick's Day in 1936, much of riverside Oakmont looked like this. The houses and buildings shown here have water partway up the first floor. The Pennzoil gas station on the right can be made out only by the sign in the middle of the image and the circular shapes sticking up out of the water, presumably the tops of gas pumps. Over 130 buildings were damaged in Oakmont alone.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Oakmont (Allegheny County, Pa.)
    Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
    Floods--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Flood Damage--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
    Flood Debris--Pennsylvania--Oakmont
  • Source
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library Archives
  • Contributor
  • Oakmont Carnegie Library
  • Collection
  • Oakmont Historical Image Collection
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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