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Title: Bath house at the Pike
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1902
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.
Bathers are in the water or lying on the beach in front of the bathhouse, or Plunge, at The Pike amusement park in Long Beach. Other amusement-goers are strolling on the boardwalk or under the bathhouse's long colonnade.; Started in 1902, The Pike ran until 1979. When the Pacific Electric line to Long Beach was built, the Long Beach Bath House and Amusement Company built this bath house on the beach near the end of the street car line.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074689
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-3 (772) 4x5
CARL0000077998
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/115405
Subject: Amusement parks--California--Long Beach
Bathhouses--California--Long Beach
Beaches--California--Long Beach
Public architecture--California--Long Beach
Leisure industry--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Pike, The (Long Beach, Calif. : Amusement park)

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