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Title: Venice pier closed
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1946
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: The Venice pier, which for more than a half century has been a fun and playground area for millions of people, today was quiet. All concessions on the pier closed last night--never to reopen again. The pier faces demolition to make way for a beach development and super-highway program. Photo dated: April 19, 1946.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057222
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 372.
CARL0000062313
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22537
Subject: Piers--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Buildings--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Amusement rides--California--Venice (Los Angeles)
Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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