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Title
Ocean Park roller coaster death
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1927
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated March 1, 1927 reads, "Authorities today were investigating the death of John Lee O'Brien, 19-year-old Los Angeles youth pictured at left, when he fell from an Ocean Park roller coaster into the sea. The photo-diagram shows the point at which O'Brien fell from the coaster car and the dotted line indicates the path of his plunge of 50 feet into the ocean to his death."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00096913
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1583.
CARL0005068955
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33584
Subject
Accident victims--California--Santa Monica
Death--California--Santa Monica
Amusement parks--California--Santa Monica
Beaches--California--Santa Monica
Roller coasters--California--Santa Monica
Piers--California--Santa Monica
Lost architecture--California--Santa Monica
Ocean Park Pier (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Ocean Park (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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