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Title: OP surf competition
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1983
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph caption dated September 3, 1983 reads, "Spectators crowd Huntington Beach for surfing championships, which continue today, and one onlooker, ..." and "Surfing fans found little room to spread out their towels as thousands flocked to the shores of Huntington Beach to watch the OP surfing contest Saturday". The U.S. Open of Surfing is a week-long surfing competition held annually during the summer in Huntington Beach, California.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083395
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b056_f2_i12
CARL0002873861
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25897
Subject: Beaches--California--Huntington Beach
Surfing--Competitions--California--Huntington Beach
Sports spectators--California--Huntington Beach
Crowds--California--Huntington Beach
Men--California--Huntington Beach
Women--California--Huntington Beach
Beachgoers--California--Huntington Beach
Umbrellas--California--Huntington Beach
Huntington Beach (Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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