Subject: Amusement piers--California--Venice - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of the Ship Café along with the Abbot Kinney Pier and the crowds in front. Flags hang all over the restaurant, which was built in the shape of a ship. There are other buildings at both the left and right of the image.
Date:: about 1910
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mary A. West (Mary Adelbert Teel West Shepard) was H. H. West's first wife and the mother of his children. Frances West (Frances Lucille West Wells) was their daughter.
Date:: about 1910
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, of Elizabeth West and Frances West standing on the beach on posing in front of the south side of the Venice amusement pier. The girls stand at center. Both look to camera as they hold clumps of kelp in their hands. Kelp lies on damp sand. The shore stretches behind them on an upward angle from left to right. In the distance at right, the pier stretches across the image and into the ocean from right to left.
Date:: [circa 1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of the West girls and Mead boys standing in a row with other children and posing at the beach in front of the Venice amusement pier. Nine children, including the 2 West girls and the 2 Mead boys stand in a row near the surf and with their backs towards the south side of the pier; all look to the camera. Elizabeth West stands second from the left. Edmond Mead stands at center. Frances West stands to the right of him and Paul Mead stands to the right of Frances. The water approaches the shore at left and the shoreline extends on an angle towards the pier, which stretches across the background.
Date:: [circa 1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Elizabeth and Frances West stand in the surf holding kelp. The Abbot Kinney Pier is visible in the background, including the Ship Café. Both girls wear ribbons in their hair.
Date:: about 1910
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of Elizabeth West, Frances West and Paul Mead playing on the beach with other children while Sena Mead stands nearby. About 9 children are grouped together in the near distance; some play in the surf and some stand. Elizabeth West is second from left, digging a small pool in the sand. She is crouched on the ground and peeks behind a girl standing in front of and to the right of her. Frances West stands at center with both arms hanging out by her sides as she looks towards a boy standing in the foreground at right. Three children stand or crouch in a line directly behind Frances. To the right of Frances, Paul Mead stands and looks towards the same boy in the foreground at right. Sena Mead stands a far right and appears to approach the camera. A small boy stands in front of her in the foreground with his back to the camera. The shore stretches back from the left towards center where it meets the pier. Other beachgoers walk through the surf in the distance at left. The pier stretches across the background.
Date:: [circa 1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Large crowd celebrating the Fourth of July holiday on Venice Beach beach in front of the Ocean Park Bathhouse with Lick Pier and Ocean Park Pier in the background.
Date:: July 4, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A large crowd celebrating the Fourth of July on Venice Beach in front of Ocean Park Pier.
Date:: July 4, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dozens of people sit or stand along Venice Beach. The crowd stretches back in a loose line from left to center; most face right. All wear jackets at the beach. In the far distance at right, Venice Pier is visible extending into the water.
Date:: [circa May 19, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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