- Title
- Bath House, Long Beach, Cal.
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- Description
- Groups of people mostly sitting and relaxing on the beach in front of the Long Beach Bath House. The two-story bath house with grand portico is in the background.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm
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- Subject
- Bathhouses--California--Long Beach; Boardwalks--California--Long Beach; Amusement parks--California--Long Beach; Beaches--California--Long Beach
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- Note
- Before 1866, most of what is now Long Beach was part of two ranchos: Los Cerritos and Los Alamitos. By the 1880s portions of Rancho Los Cerritos were sold, subdivided and developed by William Willmore under the name of Willmore City. By 1888, the population had voted to incorporate the city and rename it the City of Long Beach. In the early 20th century, Long Beach became a popular seaside resort as well as a major shipping port. Under the direction of Charles R. Drake, the Long Beach Bath House and Amusement Company built a bath house on the beach near the end of the street car line. Opened in 1902, the two-story Bath House (later known as the Plunge) was one of the earliest attractions on the Pike. It featured 485 private dressing rooms and 500 bathing suits available for rent, a 60 x 120 foot heated salt-water pool for both men and women, a 40 x 8 foot pool for women only, and 22 hot salt-water baths. Subsequently, the boardwalk-style amusement area became known as the Pike, sometimes called "Walk of a Thousand Lights." It was Long Beach’s entertainment center for both local residents and tourists.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type Value
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Long Beach (Calif.); Pike, The (Long Beach, Calif. : Amusement park)
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- Language
- eng
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