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Title: Giant Dipper roller coaster
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1926
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 sign below the roller coaster entrance reads "This is sure some wicked ride". From the tracks winding up and around behind (with at least one full car on the track), it certainly does not look tame. This ride replaced the Big Dipper coaster on the Venice Pier in 1924.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00008872
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Venice-Amusement parks; S-003-052 4x5
CARL0000010799
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/83248
Subject: Amusement parks--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Beaches--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Roller coasters--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Pacific Ocean
Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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