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Title: Long Beach Casting Club, Long Beach Recreation Park
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Long Beach Casting Club located at Recreation Park in Long Beach. Children used this casting pond as a pool for wading and swimming, as seen on the left side of the photo. This sprawling 210.9-acre park in the southeast section of Long Beach is home to an 18 and 9-hole golf course, a community center, a baseball field, a dog park, lawn bowling green, and the usual amenities found in most parks. Recreation Park is located at 4900 E. 7th Street. April 3, 1937.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00068962
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 590 4x5
CARL0000072795
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2320
Subject: Long Beach Casting Club (Long Beach, Calif.)
Recreation areas--California--Long Beach
Swimming pools--California--Long Beach
Recreation centers--California--Long Beach
Parks--California--Long Beach
Recreation Park (Long Beach, Calif.)
Long Beach (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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