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Title
Ocean Front Walk, Ocean Park
Date Created and/or Issued
1927
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Image of a crowd of people on the Ocean Front Walk next to the Ocean Park Pier at Ocean Park in Santa Monica, California. There is a banner in the foreground for "Ocean Park Doc Carvers Diving Horses- Free staring June 26," and the marquee on the Rosemary Theater at left reads "Now playing Lon Chaney & Preview Tonite" with a poster for the movie "The Unknown." Additional signs include "Dancing," "Ocean Park Pier Dome Theatre," and "Egyptian Ball Room."
This is a copy negative (a photograph of another photograph). "Ocean front walk, Rosemary Dome Theaters, Ocean Park"--note from donor Ernest Marquez written on envelope in which the negative was received. Title based on note from Ernest Marquez; date devised by cataloger based on the history of the Lon Chaney movie "The Unknown" which was released in 1927.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 10 x 12.5 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
489991
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16673
Subject
Ballrooms
Boardwalks
Crowds
Theaters
Photographs. (aat)
Place
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Ocean Park (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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