- Title
- Dance Pavilion on the Pier, Venice, California
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- Date
- 1922
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- Description
- Exterior view of the Venice Dance Hall located on the main walkway of the Venice Pier. Visitors to the pier crowd the walkway. American flags fly above the building while other flags are draped across the building.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Dance halls--California--Los Angeles; Piers--California--Los Angeles;
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- Note
- The new Venice Amusement Pier, built after the fire of 1921, was officially opened to the public on Independence Day, 1921." The Venice Pier offered a plethora of rides, games, and other activities, and included roller coasters, a 99-foot Dragon Slide, a new Ship Cafe, Noah's Ark ride, a merry-go-round, a racing derby, and many other activities. The new Venice Dance Hall was designed by architect Lawrence Furniss. Its dance floor could accommodate 800 couples, and there were loges for spectators. In 1946 the city council decided to tear down the Venice pier. The pier was slowly demolished, and what was not demolished by 1946 was destroyed by a fire in 1947.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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