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Title
Virginia Hotel, Long Beach
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1924
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
The Virginia Hotel, on the south side of Ocean Boulevard 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.
Aerial view of the beach side of the Virginia Hotel, Ocean Boulevard at Magnolia in Long Beach. The hotel rises six stories with two wings and has pergolas and tennis courts facing the sea.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00077362
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Long Beach-Hotels-Virginia Hotel; G-001-631 4x5
CARL0000079891
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/111403
Subject
Virginia Hotel (Long Beach, Calif.)
Hotels--California--Long Beach
Aerial photographs
Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963
Brown, Frederick G
Angier, Belle S
Long Beach (Calif.)--Aerial views
Long Beach (Calif.)

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