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Title: Event at the Pike
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1930
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.
People gather around an entertainment event at The Pike amusement park south of Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach. They're watching a scaffold with two men at the top and two racing cars suspended lower down. Flood lights are aimed at the scaffold and a ramp connects its platform to the sand.; Started in 1902, The Pike ran until 1979.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074680
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
N-000-404 4x5; Long Beach-Amusement parks-The Pike.
CARL0000078236
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/115907
Subject: Amusement parks--California--Long Beach
Amusements--California--Long Beach
Leisure industry--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Pike, The (Long Beach, Calif. : Amusement park)

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