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Title: First Municipal Auditorium
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Musil, Joseph
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
View of the first Long Beach Municipal Auditorium extending onto the beach on pillars. The municipal pier is to the left.; The first Long Beach Municipal Auditorium was built in 1905 on the east side of the municipal pier at Seaside and Pine Ave. for a capacity crowd of 6000. A wooden-frame construction with supporting pillars, the upper deck collapsed on May 15, 1913, during the "British Empire Day" celebration. The auditorium was replaced in 1932 by the second Long Beach Municipal Auditorium.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00014875
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
A-007-225 4x5; Long Beach-Theaters-Municipal Auditorium.
CARL0000002932
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/86699
Subject: Municipal Auditorium (Long Beach, Calif.)
Theaters--California--Long Beach
Auditoriums--California--Long Beach
Wooden-frame buildings--California--Long Beach
Piers--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)

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