- Title
- The Palisades and Bay, Santa Monica, California
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- Description
- A view of the Santa Monica Bay, looking north towards the Palisades and bay from the California Incline, with mountains in the distance. What looks to be half of the remaining Long Wharf extends into the bay.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Bays--California--Santa Monica; Beaches--California--Santa Monica; Roads--California--Santa Monica; Wharves--California--Santa Monica;
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- Note
- Built in 1903, the open air incline was once a dusty unpaved road called "The Sunset Trail," and was originally the only way to get from the bluffs to the pier below. The California Incline was later paved, with the entrance at the far west end of California Avenue, linking Ocean Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway." Santa Monica Bay was originally the site of the Long Wharf, briefly known as the Port of Los Angeles, located around 2 miles north of Santa Monica city proper at Portero Canyon. For a short while, Santa Monica was a competitor for the location of the primary deep water seaport for the city of Los Angeles. However, in 1897 a Congressional decision was made favoring San Pedro as the major port for Los Angeles, and the Long Wharf eventually lost the shipping trade. In 1913, Pacific Electric contracted to have the outer 1600 feet of the Long Wharf dismantled, reducing it to around half of its original size. The remaining portion of the pier was removed by December of 1920.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Santa Monica Bay (Calif.); Pacific Palisades (Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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