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All in the Family, Arizona Territory

Santa Fe Railroad Depot built in the early 1900's with the famous "California Construction." The building joists were on the outside of the building and the siding was inside, a single thickness of sheeting, no lath or plaster. Plumbing web added later was on the outside. "It didn't freeze in California so why build with thick walls."

Senior Citizens' Recreation. In what was Lincoln Park -- Broadway to Ocean, Pacific to Cedar -- were many activities for the aged of Long Beach: shuffleboard, croquet, checkers, or just spectating, and fishing off Belmont Pier (the poles were light-weight and a good time was had by all even if nothing much was caught but smelt).

Advertising Brochure for the Dana Strand Club

Arborn’s Harbor Market on Balboa Island.

Mesa to Globe, Arizona Territory

Field scene of the harvest. A man with a shoulder sack picking oranges.

San Clemente Sport Fishers: man standing next to a black sea bass, 1946

Aircraft carrier "Valley Forge" in operation. (April 27)

"Roll-Out" of the first Douglas "Globemaster" giant cargo plane for the U.S. Air Force.

Albacore catch, Port Orange

Huge wooden blimp hangar built during WWII entirely of wood (to conserve strategic metal) and housed U.S. Navy "Lighter-than-air" blimps. The blimp was used for patrol along the west coast of California to watch for enemy submarines. At one time there were 4 blimps serviced and crews were billeted there at the Lighter-than-air Station in Santa Ana, near Tustin.

MACKEREL FLEET at the Cannery

U.S. Navy "Operation High Jump" at Naval Shipyard. "Operation High Jump" was an expedition to explore Antarctica, lead Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

Water System, Williams., Arizona Territory

Moving a Yard Patrol boat (YP 639) build by Hubbard's South Coast Company for the US Navy.

“Didn’t go fishing.” Employee of Newport Balboa Savings and Loan looking forlorn as she sits next to a sign that reads "TO OUR CUSTOMERS, Half the members of our staff are . . . FISHING. The staff members on dury are suffering the pangs of envy, PLEASE BE KIND TO THEM!" The yacht Pioneer is anchored in the background.

Senior Citizens' recreation in what was Lincoln Park.

U.S. battleship "Iowa" at anchor in Long Beach Harbor.

Newport Balboa Savings and Loan, 131-135

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Sherman Library collects and makes available to the public historic materials relating to the Pacific Southwest. Sherman Library's photograph collections document a wide range of places and events in southern California, Arizona, and northern Mexico. A selection of the roughly 40,000 photographs in the Library's holdings are available through the Sherman Library Digital Catalog. If you cannot find an item on a specific subject you are searching for, please contact us at library@slgardens.org.