A66.95.343

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c.1927
4 in HIGH x 5 in WIDE
(10.16 cm HIGH x 12.70 cm WIDE)
Gift of Mr. Martin J. Cooney
A66.95.343






Miss California beauty contestant in swimsuit in front of crowds, outdoors.

From the exhibition "Oakland Revisited., Reflections of Life in the City's Past" Oakland Museum, 2-4/1987Brian SD. Suen, curator.Added by: P. Mendelsohn; August, 2002Idora Park was renowned not only for its (amusement) rides and sideshows but also for nightly opera performances and dramas in the park's Wigwam Theatre. Covering seventeen and a half acres from 55th to 58th streets, and from Telegraph to Shattuck Avenues, the park was razed in 1929 to make way for a housing tract.

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