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Title
People on beach next to Looff Pleasure Pier and Santa Monica Pier
Date Created and/or Issued
1917
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Image of people on the boardwalk and the beach next to the Santa Monica Municipal Pier and Looff Pleasure Pier with the Ocean Park Pier in the distance in Santa Monica, California. A sign for "bowling and billiards" is visible next to the Looff Hippodrome in front of the Blue Streak roller coaster; the Aeroscope ride can be seen behind the left side of the Hippodrome.
This is a copy negative (a photograph of another photograph). Title devised by cataloger; date supplied by cataloger based on a caption from very similar image taken on the same day reproduced in Ernest Marquez publication Santa Monica Beach: A Collector's Pictorial History (Angel City Press, 2004), p. 40.
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 10 x 12.5 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
490033
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16715
Subject
Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Amusement rides
Beaches
Beachgoers
Piers
Roller coasters
Photographs. (aat)
Place
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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