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Title
View of the remains of the Venice Pier, showing a portion of the old roller coaster, ca.1949
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1949
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of the remains of the Venice Pier, showing a portion of the old roller coaster, ca.1949. What appears to be a portion of a circular shaped track extends three stories into the sky, at center. Below, railroad piling-sized logs stand vertically and in diagonals, from the sand. Debris is piled on top of what appears to have been the pier.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4982
USC-0-1-1-5084 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33123
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4982
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33123.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles County--Los Angeles--Venice--Amusement pier
Piers
Time Period
circa 1949
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Venice
Source
33123 [Accession number]
CHS-33123 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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