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Title	Looking south from foot of 27th Avenue, Los Angeles County, 1940
Description	Photograph (engineering notebook photoprint) looking south from foot of 27th Avenue, Los Angeles County. Note narrow beach and narrow board walk (Ocean Front Walk). This followed a 6.2 tide on 9 January 1940 accompanied by heavy ground swells and 30 foot breakers which did considerable damage to piers and ocean front property between Newport Beach and Malibu along the route of the proposed "Ocean Front Walk" location of State Route 163 between Santa Monica and Redondo. Also visible are: wooden guard rail, a few houses, oil derricks, a dog, people and birds on beach, ocean, part of the coast visible across the water. No legible signs.
Subject (lcsh)	Beaches -- California Oil well drilling rigs Pacific Ocean
Geographic subject (roadway)	California State Route 163; 27th Avenue
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Coverage date	1940-01-10
Creator	Automobile Club of Southern California
Publisher (of the Digital Version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1940-01-10
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	photoprint : b&w ; 9 x 14.5 cm.
Format (aat)	photographs photographic prints
Call number	Engineering Notebook. California State Highways. Book X. 40-6
Identifying number	unidentified no: 1-6
Legacy record ID	acsc-m454
Part of subcollection	Automobile Club of Southern California engineering notebook photoprints, 1922-1941
Part of collection	Automobile Club of Southern California collection, 1892-1963
Rights	Automobile Club of Southern California
Access conditions	Contact Automobile Club at https://www.aaa-calif.com/websupport/webmaster.aspx and select Other Issues. Ask for your query to be forwarded to the archives staff.
Repository name	Automobile Club of Southern California
Repository address	2601 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Filename	AAA-EN-40-6
Full text	4o-G
Archival file	acsc_Volume4/AAA-EN-40-6.tiff

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