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Know Your City No.181 Empty beach and walkway at Venice Beach, Calif. looking south toward Playa del Rey

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Title: Know Your City No.181 Empty beach and walkway at Venice Beach, Calif. looking south toward Playa del Rey
Date Created and/or Issued: May 17, 1956
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4668
Description: ANSWER: Now that you think of it, the beach shown in the photo is the broad expanse of the municipal beach at Venice, looking south toward Playa del Rey. That horizontal black line in center of the picture is the Pacific Ocean. What the photo lacks: Bathing beauties.
KNOW YOUR CITY, NO.181 -- No, this isn't the edge of the Sahara, despite all the sand, palm tress and those oil wells in the distance. It's within the city limits, which contain few stretches of sand like this. For the answer, see Page 32, Part l.
Type: Image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b257_95950GS
ark:/21198/zz0002t7k3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Oil wells--California--Los Angeles
Environment
Beaches--California--Los Angeles County
Sidewalks
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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