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Villa Riviera Hotel, Long Beach
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Order Number
00064758
Title
Villa
Riviera
Hotel
,
Long
Beach
Collection ID
Works Progress Administration Collection
Location/Accession
WPA
2361-B
4x5
Date
Circa
1937
Physical Description
1
photograph
:b&w
Historical Data
The
Villa
Riviera
Hotel
,
800
East
Ocean
Boulevard
,
constructed
in
1929
, was
second
in
height
at that
time
only
to
Los
Angeles
City
Hall
. Its
architect
,
Richard
D
.
King
,
won
a
grand
prize
at an
international
contest
for his
design
of the
sixteen-story
building
. The
cost
of
construction
was
over
two
million
dollars
. At
one
time
,
Joseph
M
.
Schenck
of
Twentieth
Century-Fox
and
Norma
Talmadge
, then his
wife
,
owned
the
hotel
.
It
survived
the
Long
Beach
earthquake
with
only
plaster
cracks
which
were
easily
repaired
and
is
a
Long
Beach
landmark
.
Description
A
man
sits
on a
bench
by a
park
that
leads
to the
Villa
Riviera
Hotel
on
Ocean
Boulevard
in
Long
Beach
. A
2-hour
parking
sign
is
attached
to the
lamppost
as
well
as a
sign
giving
mileage
to
North
Long
Beach
,
6
;
Bell
,
15
;
Maywood
,
16
;
Pasadena
,
28
1/2
.
Publisher
Federal Writers' Project.
Subject
Villa Riviera Hotel (Long Beach, Calif.).
Hotels--California--Long Beach.
Streets--California--Long Beach.
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs.
Long Beach (Calif.).
King, Richard D.
Format
Photographic prints
Reproduction Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at
http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html
for additional information.
Internal Notes
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Sub-Collection Name
Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
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