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Title: Queen's Park opening with hot air balloons
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Messinger, Joe
Date Created and/or Issued: 1969
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.
Pockets the Clown gazes skyward as George Stokes and his balloon get higher and higher over the old New Pike, which is being re-opened at Queen's Park in honor of The Queen Mary. Due to arrive soon is a roller coaster, which will be larger than the old one. Stokes' balloon is a hot air balloon. At first he was worried about clearing the buildings of Long Beach, but that problem was solved when he went out to sea, causing some concern among onlookers. Photograph dated March 30, 1969.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 17 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00093260
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 48
CARL0005009193
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28673
Subject: Balloon decorations--California--Long Beach
Clowns--California--Long Beach
Hot air balloons
Long Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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