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Title: Marine Stadium, Long Beach
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1932
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Considered one of the world's premier water skiing facilities, Marine Stadium is located on Appian Way between Second and Colorado, in Long Beach. This was the site for the 1968 Olympic rowing trials and the 1993 Olympic Rowing competition. More recently, it was also the site for the 2004 and the 2006 X Games. Marine Stadium was recently designated as an official state historic site. Although not the typical stadium, bleachers are visible on the right.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00066233
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 2351 4x5
CARL0000070810
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1968
Subject: Aquatic sports--California--Long Beach
Grandstands--California--Long Beach
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Long Beach
Stadiums--California--Long Beach
Pacific Ocean
Long Beach (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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