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Title: Tonga Lei Motel in Malibu
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987
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: Photograph caption dated November 10, 1987 reads, "The nine-room Tonga Lei Motel, for years a popular Malibu landmark, will be bulldozed along with neighboring Don the Beachcomber's Restaurant to make way for a new 47-room hotel. The lobby of the Tonga Lei also serves as a gift shop."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041272
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b066_f2_i30
CARL0000045215
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13021
Subject: Tonga Lei Motel (Malibu, Calif.)
Beaches--California--Malibu
Coasts--California, Southern
Motels--California--Malibu
Malibu (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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