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More photographs
taken at night  Walking down the main street of the Pike with arcades, shooting galleries, cotton candy, hot dogs, cafes, and a Ripleys Believe It or Not type side show and other exhibits. Main Street was called " The
Walk of a Thousand Lights" Note
in this 1938 photo that the water has been pushed back from the bath
house (the building center right with the white pillars) with a new
Cyclone Racer roller coaster and other new amusement buildings having
been added. Long Beach and Los Angeles harbors are in the background.
Kelly Adams found these photos in their family photo album of their grandparents taken in the ‘40s and 50’s on Main Street at The Pike.
Our
family has a photo taken in the summer of 1935 of my aunt, Wilma
Griffin, sitting on the "moon" at the Pike amusement center. I
don't know where the "moon" was located on the grounds. My aunt
was 17 at the time. My aunt and her parents (my grandparents) and her 2
brothers (one was my dad) were on a vacation trip from Burlington,
Kansas to California. My grandmother wrote on the back of the photo:
"Wilma Griffin on Pike at Long Beach."
1. More photographs taken at night 2. Photo of the Old Arcade and plaque on new fountain from the Pike as it is today.
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