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Aerial detail of remains of Pickering and Lick Piers in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California

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Title: Aerial detail of remains of Pickering and Lick Piers in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California
Date Created and/or Issued: 1924-05
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: Aerial view looking east showing remains of Pickering and Lick Piers in Ocean Park (now a neighborhood of Santa Monica, California), after fire destroyed them on January 6, 1924. The Bon Ton Ballroom can still be seen in bottom right of image. Ocean Park Municipal Auditorium is still standing next to remains of Giant Dipper roller coaster.
"Ocean Park aerial view May 1924"--text, handwritten on glass. Glass is yellowed. Title devised by cataloger; date transcribed from negative.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : glass negative ; plate 10.2 x 12.7 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
487610
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16920
Subject: Piers
Fires
Ruins
Roller coasters
Photographs. (aat)
Glass plate negatives. (aat)
Aerial views. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Ocean Park (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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