Image of people standing on the Santa Monica Municipal Pier in front of shops while peering over a railing at the ocean and beach in Santa Monica, California. Signs for stores on the pier include "Sea Food Grotto," "Chesapeake Cafe," "Fishing Tackle," and "ice cream bar." This is a copy negative (a photograph of another photograph). Title supplied by cataloger based on title given to postcard with this image published Golden West Photo; date supplied by cataloger based on date provided for same image in Ernest Marquez publication Santa Monica Beach (Angel City Press, 2004), p. 139. The former La Monica Ballroom, visible with tower in right foreground, had been renamed the Santa Monica Ballroom and was home to Spade Cooley's Western Swing Band.
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