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Title: Sailors eating hot dogs at The Pike
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Inman Co
Date Created and/or Issued: 1937
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.
Sailors pose with hot dogs in mouths by a cafe on The Pike amusement park south of Ocean Blvd. in Long Beach. The cafe employees, dressed in white shirts and hats, watch from inside the stand. The cafe offers "drip coffee" as well as hot cakes, oatmeal, corn flakes, ham & eggs and bacon & eggs for breakfast.; Started in 1902, The Pike ran until 1979.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074678
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA (6151) 4x5; Long Beach-Amusement parks-The Pike.
CARL0000078238
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/115910
Subject: Amusement parks--California--Long Beach
Frankfurters--California--Long Beach
Sailors--California--Long Beach
Midways--California--Long Beach
Concessions (Amusements, etc.)--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)
Pike, The (Long Beach, Calif. : Amusement park)

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