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Title: Carousel at the Pike
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Creator: Winstead Photo
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 193-?
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.
A woman stands near the carousel at The Pike amusement park south of Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach. An attendant wears a tie and a coin changer as he stands on the carousel's platform next to a child who is a blur as he rides his prancing pony. An elderly man and a young woman sit on benches as they watch the carousel turn.; Started in 1902, The Pike ran until 1979. In 1911, Charles I. D. Looff installed the carousel and he and his family began to live above it.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074694
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-4 (551) 4x5
CARL0000077986
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/115396
Subject: Amusement parks--California--Long Beach
Amusement rides--California--Long Beach
Merry-go-rounds--California--Long Beach
Merry-go-round horses--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Pike, The (Long Beach, Calif. : Amusement park)

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