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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. An out-of-focus photograph of a street performer entertaining a crowd at the intersection of Crescent and Sumner Avenues in Avalon. A plaza stretches across the foreground. At left, a several people walk away from camera and towards center. At right, people are gathered to watch a performer in the near distance at center. The performer stands with his back to camera in the middle of Crescent Avenue. Beyond him, spectators gather in a line that spans the width of the image. Behind the spectators at left, buildings stand at the corner of Crescent Avenue and Sumner Avenue. In the background at center, buildings line the left side of Sumner Avenue. A little nearer to camera, a building rises alongside the right edge. Text from negative sleeve: 2396. Catalina Island trip Aug. 7, 1948. 1. Arrival at Avalon and getting down the gang plank 2. The crowd at end of wharf to greet us. 3. The Wild Man of Borneo greets us 4. Close up of the Human Ape 5. Everett Shaw looking at Camera, his wife on bench at his side. Mrs H.H.West smiling right behind the boy standing at end of bench.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2396_003 ark:/21198/zz002j3wxk
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Street entertainers--California--Avalon Plazas--California--Avalon Santa Catalina Island (Calif.) Crowds--California--Avalon
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