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A small crowd of people gape over their heads at the "Venice Gondola" ride in which a capsule of people is swung in a vertical circle, 1934

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Title: A small crowd of people gape over their heads at the "Venice Gondola" ride in which a capsule of people is swung in a vertical circle, 1934
Latest Beach Thriller
Creator: International News Photos (New York, N.Y.)
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1934-05-19
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
Rights Information: Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
USC Libraries Special Collections
University of Southern California
specol@usc.edu
Description: Photograph of a small crowd of people gape over their heads at the "Venice Gondola" ride in which a capsule of people is swung in a vertical circle. "Watch your credit / International News Photo / 12 615 / A / E / los [sic] Angeles Bureau / Latest Beach Thriller / Venice, Calif. Venice Gondola newest pleasure thriller. Designed to built by John Branson, and demonstrated for the firsttime [sic] this new pleasure gondola is constructed of 20 foot steel girders with a passenger gondola made of duraliuminum [sic] scating [sic] six passengers. The gondola is attached to a cross bar on top of the girders, the gondola swinging into the air at the height of 40 foot. The passengers are strapped in with airplane belts. It travels at a speed of 55 miles in hour. / 5/19/34" -- typed note attached to verso.
"Received. Examiner reference library. June 22, 1934" -- stamped on verso.
Streetscape.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : photoprint, negative, b&w
photographic prints
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m3820
EXM-P-S-VEN-AMU-PIE-003
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m3820
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-VEN-AMU-PIE-003.jpg
Subject: California--Venice--Amusement Pier
Time Period: circa 1934-05-19
Place: California
Los Angeles
USA
Venice
beaches: Venice Beach
Source: EXM-P-S-VEN-AMU-PIE-003 [Original Filename]
Subjects 122 [Print Box]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation: Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961
examiner-m4404

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