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| Pacific Electric Blimps with a Catalina Special, on Anaheim Street in Wilmington. A higher resolution version of this photo is available for purchase at: https://scrm.smugmug.com/keyword/Pacific%20Electric/ |
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| Catalina steamer is inbound up the main channel in San Pedro. Passengers would have had an almost complete tour of the L.A. Harbor |
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| Both the Catalina and the Avalon with the famous casino that never actually hosted gambling. |
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| Avalon Pier, probably in the 1920s. Note the wharf railway. |
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| A postcard view from the same period. |
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| In this Postwar view, the wharf railway is gone. |
Wikipedia articles on the two ships:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Catalina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Blue_Ridge_(ID-2432)
Being a popular tourist attraction there are quite a few home movies of the Steamers on YouTube.
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