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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	Additional print: image 00077370
Sub-Collection Name	Works Progress Administration Photo Collection