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Title: South side of Santa Monica Pier
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915
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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: Image of people walking and riding an electric tram on a boardwalk heading to the Looff Pleasure Pier in Santa Monica, California, with the Blue Streak roller coaster and Looff Hippodrome in the distance.
This is a copy negative (a photograph of another photograph). Title based on note from donor Ernest Marquez: "South side of Santa Monica Pier (Plukas orig)" is written on envelope as it was received; date devised by cataloger based on the history of the Looff Pleasure Pier, which was completed in 1917, and the Blue Streak roller coaster which was replaced in 1924. The Venice Electric Tram operated approximately 1910-1929, along the concrete walkway between Venice and Santa Monica. (erha.org)
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 10 x 12.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
490100
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16782
Subject: Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Boardwalks
Beaches
Local transit
Piers
Roller coasters
Trolley buses
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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