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Aerial view of remains of Pickering and Lick Piers in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California

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Title: Aerial view of remains of Pickering and Lick Piers in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California
Date Created and/or Issued: 1924
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Detailed aerial view looking east showing remains of Pickering and Lick Piers in Ocean Park (now part of Santa Monica, California), after fire destroyed them on January 6, 1924. The Bon Ton Ballroom is seen in center of image with the newly built Giant Dipper roller coaster. Ocean Park Municipal Auditorium is still standing next to remains of the original Giant Dipper roller coaster.
"1-11 Ocean Park"--text, handwritten on glass. Title devised by cataloger; date devised by cataloger based on the newly built Giant Dipper roller coaster. The roller coaster was built after May 1924, when photCL_555_05_47 was taken and before July 4, 1924, which was opening day for the new Giant Dipper.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : glass negative ; plate 10.2 x 12.7 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
487611
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16921
Subject: Piers
Fires
Roller coasters
Ruins
Photographs. (aat)
Glass plate negatives. (aat)
Aerial views. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Ocean Park (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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