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Title: Aerial view of the new Venice Beach Recreation Center, 1961
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1961-10-20
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: Aerial view of the new Venice Beach Recreation Center. "Above, an aerial view of the new Venice Beach Recreation Center. Windward Avenue and Ocean Front Walk, which will be officially dedicated and placed into service in ceremonies scheduled at 8 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday, October 21). Mayor Samuel Wm. Yorty and Councilman Karl L. Runberg, 11th District, are honorary co-chairman [sic] of the committee in charge of arrangements for the two-day celebration which will mark the new facility's opening. The Venice Beach Recreation Center was designed by the Architectural firm of Vernon Duckett and Associates and built by contractor William J. Shirley at a cost of $867,000, with financing under provisions of the City's recreation and park bond fund" -- typed note attached to verso. Both, verso and note dated, "Friday, October 20, 1961".
Streetscape.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : photoprint, negative, b&w
photographic prints
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier: examiner-m3780
EXM-P-S-CAL-MIS-VEN-002
http://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m3780
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/EXM-P-S-CAL-MIS-VEN-002.jpg
Subject: California--Miscellaneous--Venice
Time Period: circa 1961-10-20
Place: California
Los Angeles
USA
Venice
Source: EXM-P-S-CAL-MIS-VEN-002 [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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