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Sucked from the accumulation behind the Santa Monica breakwater, sand spews from a pipe to build up eroded beach south of the municipal pier on December 29, 1949 (from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper)

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Title: Sucked from the accumulation behind the Santa Monica breakwater, sand spews from a pipe to build up eroded beach south of the municipal pier on December 29, 1949 (from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: Santa Monica Public Library
Collection: Santa Monica Image Archives
Rights Information: Images are for personal research, scholarly and educational purposes. Contact the Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives for information about the reproduction of images. The Library assumes no responsibility for the improper use of any image from the Archives.
Description: Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives. PRC76 Digital object 4066 img0076 Pier Restoration Corporation Collection Engineers calculate by the first of the year (January 1950) that 700,000 cubic yards will have been moved.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w.
Identifier: http://digital.smpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/smarchive/id/2943
Subject: Beaches--California--Santa Monica
Drainage pipes--California--Santa Monica
Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Relation: 244443565
Provenance: Included by special permission from USC Special Collections of the L.A. Examiner.

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