A Los Angeles Examiner photographer captured this scene in Sherman Oaks, at the intersection of Ventura Blvd. and Woodman Ave. Part of the Los Angeles Examiner Collection in the USC Digital Library.
Students at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks prepare to watch the blast from a nuclear weapons test on this day in 1952.
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