Image of people in front of the North Beach Bath House dressed in clothes and bathing suits on the beach in Santa Monica, California. A sign for "Eckert and Hopf's Restaurant" is painted on the side of the bathhouse building and the amusement ride called the "Haunted Swing" is at right. A sign that reads "Parisian Cloak and Suit Co." is at far right. "70 North Beach, Santa Monica."--text, on image. "Tourist View Depot. Headquarters For Mounted and Unmounted Views of Los Angeles and Vicinity ... Pierce Photo No. 513 N. Main Street, Opposite the Plaza, Los Angeles, Cal."--text, advertisement printed on verso. Title transcribed from item; date devised by cataloger based on the year the "Haunted Swing" was erected (see Santa Monica Outlook, April 14, 1894, page 5). Image reproduced image in Ernest Marquez publication Santa Monica Beach (Angel City Press, 2004), p.123. Palisades Park in seen on the cliffs behind the bathhouse. The warm salt water plunge if the long building at far left and the bathhouse is the building with the two towers.
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