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Title: California Country Club, Whittier, looking northwest
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The California Country Club property (formerly the El Dorado Club) comprises 120 acres and an 18-hole golf course designed by William F. Bell, Jr., ASGCA, featuring 6,804 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The project, which opened in 1956, represented an investment of more than $300,000; it is a private non-equity golf course. Presently (as of 2010) the address is listed as 1509 S. Workman Mill Road.
Birdseye view of California Country Club, located at 1551 Workman Mill Road in the city of Whittier; view is looking northwest toward the San Gabriel River (at top). Neatly manicured greens surround the Club House and tennis courts; the sprawling city is farther in the background, though not visible from this angle. Photograph dated March 11, 1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00091018
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b24_f2_i42 (photographic print); KHAF 349-7
CARL0004963283
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/6588
Subject: California Country Club (Whittier, Calif.)
Associations, institutions, etc.--California--Whittier
River channels--California--Whittier
Country clubs--California--Whittier
Golf courses--California--Whittier
San Gabriel River (Calif.)
Whittier (Calif.)
Whittier (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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