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Title: Palisades Beach Road
Creator: Plunkett, Bob
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of houses along the beach in Santa Monica, California, looking south from a bluff of Palisades Park with the Palisades Beach Road (part of Pacific Coast Highway) below and the California Incline, Santa Monica Pier, and Santa Monica Yacht Harbor breakwater visible in the distance. Ocean House, or the Oceanhouse Hotel, and Sand and Sea Beach Club that had been built as the beach house of actress Marion Davies, appears at center right (with multiple fireplaces).
Title and date supplied by cataloger based on a caption from identical image reproduced in Ernest Marquez publication Santa Monica Beach (Angel City Press, 2004), p. 143. Related item is a view from a similar location.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 12.5 x 17.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
488603
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18622
Subject: Davies, Marion, 1897-1961--Homes and haunts
California Incline (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Pacific Coast Highway
Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Beaches
Dwellings
Entertainers--Homes and haunts
Hotels
Private clubs
Roads
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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