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Here it is, e_r: https://i.postimg.cc/Vvx8gYK0/Footbridge3-3-38.jpg LA Times 3/3/1938, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library |
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While looking for additional information on the 10 victims (two women, a small boy, four sailors, four civilians) I happened upon the "Lash of St. Francis" tropical storm that devastated the area the following year. (1939) "The Lash of St. Francis (El Cordonazo de San Francisco) winds and rains came unexpectedly and suddenly, startling some Long Beachers who had hit the strand that Monday during a searing summer heat wave that brought record-breaking temperatures of 103 degrees just a few days earlier. As gales reached 65 mph, the Navy deployed four new destroyers attached to the Battle Fleet, and the Coast Guard added a pair of cutters to rescue boaters in the Catalina Channel. In all, 48 people were killed in California, including 24 aboard the vessel Spray (two passengers survived) as it was attempting to dock near Point Magu and 15 aboard the Ventura fishing boat Lur." The death toll of the Flood of 1938 was 96 people. . |
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Very interesting, e_r, about the Lash of St. Francis--I wonder if that's the old name for the Santa Ana Winds . . . ? Meantime, back at the awning factory: I had supposed that our friends the Swanfeldts had ebbed away after Avalon stopped being a (mostly) tent town. How wrong I was! They seem to have been quite resilient. Here are some gleanings (all from the LA Times, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library): https://i.postimg.cc/rFF3M1WZ/Swanfeldt5-25-24.jpg 5/25/1924 https://i.postimg.cc/gkS5JxHz/Swanfeldt6-16-33.jpg 6/16/1933 https://i.postimg.cc/t4scV9Bh/Swanfeldt11-6-49.jpg 11/6/1949 https://i.postimg.cc/9X1g8DSd/Swanfeldt4-24-52.jpg 4/24/1952 https://i.postimg.cc/xTCxW0DW/Swanfeldt1-13-71.jpg 1/13/1971 |
Meanwhile; back in Long Beach. ;)
LONG BEACH GRADE SCHOOL...1890 - 1965............................................................................................................................. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/SaF0UB.jpg eBay The building was initially a one school schoolhouse built in 1890; in 1907 another room was added; in 1915 the rooms were enlarged and remodeled to make the building pictured. It was replaced by a new brick school in 1965. Is that a bunch of firwood? If so, the school must have had a wood burning stove / furnace. ...(my old grade school had a coal burning furnace) BACK OF THE POSTCARD...IT DOESN'T INCLUDE AN ADDRESS. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/ATZcVB.jpg I am trying to figure out where this wooden school was located. . |
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Sixth and Pine, e_r? From an article talking about Long Beach doings: https://i.postimg.cc/vZk9M2Gv/LBSchool3-29-03.jpg LA Times 3/29/1903, via ProQuest, vis CSULB Library |
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Perhaps someone can link some of the L.A. Times stories about the storm of 1939 and the storm "Kathleen" in 1976. |
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................:previous: I bet that's it! ..... Thanks, odinthor. :) . |
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I stand corrected....I should have looked at it more closely.
The postcard is listed as Long Beach, California.... HERE . |
Hmmm...so what did the grade school in Long Beach California look like? :shrug:
Here is Lowell Elementary, damaged in the 1933 Earthquake. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/pJMVX3.jpg cdm Description:.. "Art Deco style schoolhouse showing severe damage to central tower and left roof line. Photo mis-identified as Jefferson Junior High." I'm sure Lowell Elementary was one of several grade schools in Long Beach CA., right? . |
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https://i.postimg.cc/XvcT9gCm/Annota...-25-111146.jpg via GSV I looks like they retained either the undamaged portions of the original structure or used the same floor plan. |
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