1926 Ocean Park Fourth of July

From: Kelyn Roberts <kelyn73@gmail.com>

Subject: Check out, Ocean Park Beach&amp;nbsp;1926, at Framework

Date: July 7, 2013 5:28:43 AM PDT

To: Kelyn Roberts <kelyn73@gmail.com

Thanks to Judy and Johanne Leavitt

Somebody wanted you to look at a blog post from Framework, the Los Angeles Times' photo & video blog. Click the link below, if you're curious.


Title: Ocean Park Beach 1926


Brief Description: July 5, 1926: Crowded scene at Ocean Park Beach, now a part of Santa Monica.


The July 6, 1926 Los Angeles Times reported:

SANTA MONICA, July 5.–All the beach cities celebrated the Fourth with patriotic and holiday programs which drew hundreds of thousands from Los Angeles and inland points. Though Sunday was on the calendar as the 150th anniversary of the birth of independence on this continent, today witnessed the main pyrotechnics of celebration. From early morning until late at night... 


Link to post: http://framework.latimes.com/2013/07/05/ocean-park-beach-1926/

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Venice beach. Photo stamped received July 8, 1926. Used in "Times Gone By," a postcard book produced in 1998 by the Times' Consumer Promotion and Marketing Department. ññ Image appeared in book "Imagining Los Angeles: Photographs of a 20th Century City," published by Los Angeles Times, 2000.

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