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Title: Long Beach Auditorium and Breakers Hotel
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Completed in 1932 from plans drawn by J. Harold McDowell, the auditorium replaced Long Beach's first Municipal Auditorium. It was demolished in 1975 to make way for the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center.
Panoramic view looking toward the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium (center) and Breakers Hotel (right). View is from the east side of the Rainbow Pier looking west. Photo dated: February 14, 1938.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00014881
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 3045 4x5; A-007-224 4x5
CARL0000002952
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1761
Subject: Municipal Auditorium (Long Beach, Calif.)
Breakers Hotel (Long Beach, Calif.)
Theaters--California--Long Beach
Auditoriums--California--Long Beach
Hotels--California--Long Beach
Lost architecture--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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