Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the article “Tides Bring New Peril, Pilings Smashed From Pier, Property Damage Increases as Oceanic Disturbance Pounds Beach Front, Film People Aid Residents in Erecting Barricades Against Rising Seas.” Los Angeles Times, 7 Sept. 1934 Beach house with foundation undermined, shored up by boards, with dump truck depositing load of rock at right, about 6 people observing at center, 2 children in foreground, other houses in background Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Newport Beach Text from newspaper caption: Halting New Inroads by Pounding Seas. Scene in Newport Beach, where foot of Twenty-sixth street has been washed away by tides. Truckloads of rock are being dumped in an attempt to prevent further destruction by pounding of the waves.
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