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Title: World's highest
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
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: Photograph caption dated May 29, 1959 reads, "The only ride of its kind anywhere, the new Space Wheels at Pacific Ocean Park in Santa Monica offer a unique view of the California coastline from a vantage point over 90 feet high at the top. The breathtaking ride will be one of many new attractions at POP when it reopens today."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00121094
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d025_f11_i4
CARL0005397485
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/54188
Subject: Amusement parks--California--Santa Monica
Men--California--Santa Monica
Women--California--Santa Monica
Children--California--Santa Monica
Crowds--California--Santa Monica
Amusement rides--California--Santa Monica
Ferris wheels--California--Santa Monica
Signs and signboards--California--Santa Monica
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Street lighting--California--Santa Monica
Clouds--California--Santa Monica
Parks--California--Santa Monica
Lost architecture--California--Santa Monica
Pacific Ocean Park (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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