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Main Street empty in preparation for a curfew and blackout, Dec 8, 1941, Terminal Island, California.

Courtesy of uclamss_1387_b51_27022-7, Los Angeles Daily News negatives collection, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA

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