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Title: Virginia Hotel, Long Beach
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The Virginia Hotel, on the south side of Ocean Avenue at Magnolia, opened on April 1, 1908, and was the social center of the area for many years. Originally named the Bixby Hotel, it was renamed the Virginia Hotel after a construction accident in 1906 resulted in fatalities. The hotel did not survive the stock market crash of 1929 and closed on October 10, 1932. The building was demolished after the March 10, 1933 earthquake. The architects were John C. Austin and Frederick G. Brown. The landscape architect was Belle S. Angier.
Bathers enjoy the sand and sea in front of the Virginia Hotel in Long Beach. The hotel is six stories high with two wings and contains 400 rooms. Photograph dated: April 25, 1920.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;7 x 12 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00077366
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Long Beach-Hotels-Virginia Hotel
CARL0000079889
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111401
Subject: Virginia Hotel (Long Beach, Calif.)
Hotels--California--Long Beach
Beaches--California--Long Beach
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Brown, Frederick G
Angier, Belle S
Long Beach (Calif.)

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