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Title: Aerial view of Long Beach, Pike and Municipal Auditorium, looking north
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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.
The original Long Beach Municipal Auditorium was constructed in 1932 on the beach, surrounded on three sides by a lagoon. Because of problems created by storms and coastal erosion, a horseshoe (rainbow) shaped breakwater was constructed around the 8,000-seat auditorium in order to protect it. Because of its shape, it was named "Rainbow Pier", and arched from Pine Avenue to Linden Avenue. In the late 1940s, the city filled in the water to make more land. Unfortunately, the Municipal Auditorium and bandstand area were demolished in 1975 to make way for the Convention & Entertainment Center.
Aerial view of Long Beach and the Port of Long Beach; view is looking north from approximately 12,000 feet. The Los Angeles River is visible along the left, spilling into the ocean; Pike and Municipal Auditorium is just below the center, and the city spans far into the distance. Photograph dated December 2, 1955.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00088783
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 231-12
CARL0004938512
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4620
Subject: Harbors--California--Long Beach
Long Beach Harbor (Calif.)--Aerial views
Long Beach (Calif.)--Aerial views
Long Beach Harbor (Calif.)
Los Angeles River (Calif.)
Long Beach (Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951
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1955
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1960

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