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Redondo Beach, Redondo, Cal

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Description: Image of people, boats, and lumber on the beach with the Redondo Beach Hotel (also known as Hotel Redondo), on the hill at right, and a restaurant, boardinghouse, and market on Pacific Avenue in the background in Redondo Beach, California. Signs on the buildings read "Casino" and "John Weilands lager draught." A passenger train depot for the Santa Fe Railway is visible on the beach at right, with a locomotive and signs "Redondo" and "Santa Fe Route."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1896
Call number: photCL_555_01_943
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Beach Scene, Redondo Beach, Cal

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Image of a crowd of people gathered around a pagoda-style pavilion, with boats, and lumber on the beach and storefronts on Pacific Avenue for restaurants, boardinghouses, houses, and markets in the background in Redondo Beach, California. A passenger train depot for the Santa Fe Railway is visible on the beach at right, with the signs "Redondo" and "Santa Fe Route." Signs on the buildings include "Groceries, hardware, paints and oils, ship chandlery, gents furnishings goods, bathing suits, boots and shoes, fishing tackle," "Lunch Room," "Davis House," "Roach's Restaurant," "Seaside Market," and "W.A. Field."

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Street view Redondo Cal

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Image of businesses along Pacific Avenue in Redondo Beach, California, with a street car on tracks and horse-drawn wagons. Signs on the buildings read "The Columbia," "Bowling," "Rainier Beer, " "The Pool Room," "Our House Saloon, Murphy prop., furnished rooms, Tea Kettle Whiskey," "Fish Dinner," and "The Culler Co." A pagoda-style pavilion and a passenger train depot for the Santa Fe Railway are visible at far right, and houses are on the hill.

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Redondo Beach

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Image of Redondo Beach, California, showing the beach and ocean at left, and streets, a streetcar, homes, buildings, railroad tracks, a train depot, and wharf with ships moored at far right. Signs on buildings read "Coca-Cola," and "The Columbia bowling alleys."

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Santa Monica Beach from Hotel Arcadia

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Image of restaurants on the North Beach, as seen from the Arcadia Hotel in Santa Monica, California, situated next to the new railroad track along the beach. Signs on the restaurants read "Hot and cold lunches, Eckert and Hopf, Anheuser Busch Lager Beer" "Pavilion Restaurant" and "John Wieland lager beer." The Santa Monica Bath House is seen beyond the "John Wieland" sign, with a bandstand shell on the bluffs above (in present-day Palisades Park) and the Long Wharf visible in the distance.

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