San Fernando Veterans Administration Hospital patients wait in the open for evacuation to other facilities as the ruins of collapsed buildings are searched for quake victims. This photo ran the next day on the front page of the L.A. Times.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bruce Cox / Los Angeles Times

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Rescuers dig at the San Fernando Veterans Administration Hospital after buildings collapsed in an earthquake. Five hours later, a man was removed alive.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ben Olender / Los Angeles Times

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After five hours, rescuers pulled a man still alive from the ruins of a collapsed building of the San Fernando Veterans Administration Hospital.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ben Olender / Los Angeles Times

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Workers swarm over the ruins of San Fernando Veterans Administration Hospital in Sylmar, removing tiles and rubble in search of trapped victims.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bruce Cox / Los Angeles Times

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Olive View Hospital after the 1971 temblor.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Ken Lubas / Los Angeles Times

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Line of Los Angeles County ambulances and other vehicles caught under collapsed roof of parking structure at Olive View Hospital.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Boris Yaro / Los Angeles Times

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Two years after the earthquake, Bob Purcell checks over clocks removed from Olive View Hospital -- all frozen at the time of the quake.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Don Cormier / Los Angeles Times

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Two wings of Olive View Hospital, severely damaged in the February 1971 earthquake, were leveled on May 31, 1973, using an "implosion" technique by Controlled Demolition Inc. of Maryland and Huntington Beach. More than 600 pounds of new gelatine dynamite preparation brought the building down in 9-1/2 seconds.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Rick Browne / Los Angeles Times

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