Language: English / Resource Type: still image / Location: California--Santa Monica - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of corner building at Wilshire Boulevard and Fourth Street. Business signs read: "Drugs," "Diebold's Pharmacy," "Albert Sheetz [Mission Candies Ice Cream, Drugs,]" and E. A. Morrison Grocer." Curb sign reads 4th Street.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Model identified as “Miss Smith,” wearing a two-piece swim suit, photographed kneeling next to an architectural model of a beach city. The small-scale model maps neighborhoods (schools, housing, parks, streets), shopping districts, civic centers and recreational areas. Panels in the background diagram and textually describe amusement areas, civic and cultural centers, and recreation. Interests identified in the panel on the right are: Natural site location, Accessibility to transportation from extended areas, Provisions for resort trade and local residents, Segregated facilities for all ages, Open spaces and rest areas in commercial amusement center, Accessibility to beach, Development of beach,and Development of Yacht Harbor.
Date:: 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Two men and one woman creating an architectural model of a planned beach city. The woman holds a hammer while the men add trees to the model landscape. The information panels seen behind them diagram and textually describe amusement areas, civic and cultural centers, and recreation. Interests considered in planning for recreation areas include: Natural site location, Accessibility to transportation from extended areas, Provisions for resort trade and local residents, Segregated facilities for all ages, Open spaces and rest areas in commercial amusement center, Accessibility to beach, Development of beach and Development of Yacht Harbor.
Date:: 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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