Subject: Beaches--California--Long Beach / Language: No linguistic content / Location: Long Beach (Calif.) / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: In the foreground, people crowd the beach on the north side of Silver Spray Pleasure Pier in Long Beach. Children on the beach carry or fly kites. From the middle of the crowd, a kite with a long tail sails over the beach at center. Across the kite, text reads, "LONG BEACH." The crowd extends back towards the pier, which stretches across the background. Along the side of the pier, a sign reads, "SILVER SP[...] PLEASURE PIER." A roller coaster sits behind it on the pier. About a couple dozen kites are visible sailing through the sky in the distance.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Young man in bathing suit and hat, standing on sand at edge of walkway, handing something, possibly an ice cream cone, up to a young woman in bathing suit and hat, seated with 4 other young women in bathing suits on concrete wall, with crowd of people, mostly street clothes and hats, seated on sand at base of wall and standing on walkway leaning on wall, with open boat hanging from wooden supports at left, uniformed lifeguard standing at right, buildings in background, smokestack in distance
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A manicured lawn stretches across the bottom half of the image. Beyond it, spectators line the far side of the beach's strand walkway. They stand with their backs towards the camera. More people with kites crowd the beach. The ocean extends across the background. A pier juts into the water in the distance at left.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two women, in dresses, hats, shoes, and stockings, seated in folding chairs with attached striped awnings, with children playing at left, man in bathing suit seated on sand at right, umbrella, boardwalk, people on benches, and shops in background
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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