Looking north along a very crowded Ocean Park section of Santa Monica Beach, California, 1925
Between the more famous Santa Monica and Venice Beaches is a stretch of Los Angeles called Ocean Park. In this photo we’re looking north along a very, very crowded stretch of Ocean Park beach in 1925 during what I can only assume was one of the hottest days of the year. Too bad if you arrived later than noon and wanted to put up an umbrella. In the distance we can see Lick Pier, where the Rosemary Theater (whose sign we can just see) was a major attraction to the area.
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Shot of beach, Lick Pier in the far background, was the southern border of the City of Ocean Park. The white bldg in the foreground right side is Venice’s Oceanfront Walk, the building at Paloma, in front of that blogs. on Thornton Ave. meaning the foreground is close the Salt Water Plunge.
Love your Collection.
Umbrellas were rented. I knew two guys in their 70s who said as boys they were paid to pick up the umbrellas on the beach.
Ah, rented, were they? That makes sense. But a summer job spent at the beach collecting umbrellas doesn’t seem such a bad way to make some money!
They lived at the beach. LA Times: View section published a story I wrote about them around 1992-4 “Brothers Arnold… by Thomas Pleasure