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San Clemente Sport Fishers: man standing next to a black sea bass, 1946
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Moving a Yard Patrol boat (YP 639) build by Hubbard's South Coast Company for the US Navy.
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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).
Date
1947
Title
Senior Citizens' recreation in what was Lincoln Park.
Date
1947
Title
U.S. Navy "Operation High Jump" at Naval Shipyard. "Operation High Jump" was an expedition to explore Antarctica, lead Admiral Richard E. Byrd.
Date
1947
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Field scene of the harvest. A man with a shoulder sack picking oranges.
Date
1948
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"Roll-Out" of the first Douglas "Globemaster" giant cargo plane for the U.S. Air Force.
Date
1948
Title
U.S. battleship "Iowa" at anchor in Long Beach Harbor.
Date
1948
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Aircraft carrier "Valley Forge" in operation. (April 27)
Date
1949
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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."
Date
1952
Title
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.
Date
1954
Title
“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.
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Advertising Brochure for the Dana Strand Club
Date
ca. 1956
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