Photograph of a small crowd of people gape over their heads at the "Venice Gondola" ride in which a capsule of people is swung in a vertical circle. "Watch your credit / International News Photo / 12 615 / A / E / los [sic] Angeles Bureau / Latest Beach Thriller / Venice, Calif. Venice Gondola newest pleasure thriller. Designed to built by John Branson, and demonstrated for the firsttime [sic] this new pleasure gondola is constructed of 20 foot steel girders with a passenger gondola made of duraliuminum [sic] scating [sic] six passengers. The gondola is attached to a cross bar on top of the girders, the gondola swinging into the air at the height of 40 foot. The passengers are strapped in with airplane belts. It travels at a speed of 55 miles in hour. / 5/19/34" -- typed note attached to verso.; "Received. Examiner reference library. June 22, 1934" -- stamped on verso.; Streetscape.
Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961
