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Title: Municipal Auditorium exterior
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1935
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Completed in 1932 from plans drawn by J. Harold McDowell, the auditorium replaced Long Beach's first Municipal Auditorium. Built at the foot of Long Beach Boulevard, it extends 500 feet out into the Pacific Ocean. It is surrounded on three sides by a lagoon and was demolished in 1975 to make way for the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center.
View of the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium and surrounding area as it faces the Pacific Ocean. In the large, arched niche on the facade, left, is the famed WPA mosaic.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00014874
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-4 (519) 4x5
CARL0000002931
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/86698
Subject: Municipal Auditorium (Long Beach, Calif.)
Theaters--California--Long Beach
Auditoriums--California--Long Beach
Lost architecture--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)

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