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Title: Crescent Creamery building
Creator: Winstead Brothers (2861)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1924
Contributing Institution: Long Beach Public Library
Collection: Long Beach Photos
Rights Information: For information about copyright and ordering images from the LBPL Digital Archive, see https://www.longbeach.gov/library/research/long-beach-history-and-special-collections/.
Description: Here is the Crescent Creamery Company located at 334 East 5th Street. It was demolished in 1927 to make way for the Sears and Roebuck department store at 5th and American Avenue (later,Long Beach Blvd). The signs on the building announce "Crescent Creamery Co.; Milk; Cream; Butter; Ice Cream." Additional separate signs advertise, "Ice Cream", "Milk" and the "Crescent Creamery Company" within a crescent moon logo. A truck (numbered 287-A) and driver are parked in front. The side of the truck also shows the crescent logo and indicates "Crescent Milk; Extra Rich Quaility." ORIG. IMAGE: 8.5" X 11", B&W glossy print. NEGATIVE: Yes. KEYWORDS: St., Fifth, food, products, trucks, delivery.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: LBPL_1010.tiff
http://lbpl.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17164coll3/id/4482
Subject: Business
Source: Donated by the Winstead Company.
Relation: Business Firms - Dairy Products

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