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Connie Cramer Collection (Santa Monica Toastmistress Club)
Santa Monica the Way It Was, a slide presentation commemorating the City's Centennial Anniversary, 1975.
Tar brought from Wilshire and Fairfax by oxen through the arroyo to Shoofly Landing, just south of the Municipal Pier. The landing operated from 1875-1878.
Sailing vessels came in and picked up the tar.
Bridges at Sixth Street were the only means of getting across the arroyo before Southern Pacific Railroad built a tunnel for the trains to get out to the Long Wharf.
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