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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuntington Beach Since the Turn of the Century as written by o 820 (�ourson Drive Anaheim, Calif' . 92804 Feb . 82 1970 Mr. Bud Higgins 50' Lake Huntington Beach California , 5qggn Dear Mr. Higgins At last getting a copy of the paper in the mail to ^ouL T Inave compiled, with yourInelp, enough material for a 100 pang p&per. I turned it in with 20 pages , but hAa ' to cut it down on instructor ' s orders to 12 , which was difficult as it all seemed interesting, and I was in a quandrary just exactly what to delete . I did. Fct an "A" l I spent a great deal of time in drafts and redrafts so thought I had. earned pit . Some of the information may differ to what ,you know. I found when consulting the various sources , r,uite afew discrepancies which made things somewhat difficult . I did enjoy doing the paper, but was extremely pressured last semester as I also had 4 other 1en,_;thy papers to do . Please' keep this copy. I am keeping all my information together so i.f' someone else wants to have access to it in future , let them have my phone number. 826-r,069. Thank you very much for all ,your assistance . I enjoyed talking to .you. History is a favorite subject of mire , so it wasn' t something I disliked doing - on the con- trary, T enj-)yed delving into all the source material. Si�cerely, 'I'ia nces Vose ' ?T'jTTI`T71 }�!',"?C'1 .�i7 \C r�, Tj'r;• T n'P! n; r ..'I"'.;lsaY (141 0 ,mnhazi a on the he rich and pg er s rea s) by l,'rar_co Vo 90 C9..1 f ornis I'll-story . "Ire Roavo ` h. 9: 30 ® Cy'-pr©so College ' -!N 01 HUNTIINGTON BEACH Z31N. E Til:a' TO! (I.;1th historical emphwult,, on Lho lboac'a anri ,-)'Ler- arenas) Gone--nal Backnroind Sinoo Ita inception as z enm-nunity In 19n).}, the focal. point of J 4untington T,;,Fich has becn the flne ,, wide-, S�ifr, &FI(i Sel6illOW i "ach areo . Ori,rineilly caterinp.- to f--niilies of th, oarly churecter, t o soma extent with t.-joinflux of ywirw. oll workars In the oarly twenties , the city once a7,aln rovert.e4 to 'it,; orltjnal ITjR.-o as t^e f8mll,T oriented and teenate pleasure cerltrr evil'EAn , P-�=sont day Hunting it-.or, 13ooch embraces a the 2009001 . cored Eranted 'hy Governor F�dro Forg:es to Don 'Manuel Niet"r) , a t-nl- dizr In the service of the Kin� of' "'p@in, th,,, 29,0',)n U ;retj --c-coming known os "Rancho LQs FolsW ( "Th, P,ck-,ts" ) . �ealtlhy L'.)ol Stoarria SCOUIred they prep rty, but caroed by the oevere drought o-, 1664 compelleri him to turn fhe :�ro- party o,.,rer to o syndicate of San '7.Pencisoqrs , '-o be known sa the SIL-cL,�Pnz Fki,rict,o Trust . Colonel Nortullam,, t:h-i Tru,,A, par- chased the Huntington kles& fri:m the croup around the tarn n'f' the rrlr_-r to 19M4 the area was kmown .by vsrlous nc,�ies: 3hell iiecch baboi-so of the variety of boon clams "Donaxl Vound 1oc:)11y,1 Re!,0-.11cGn Paud 'heeouso cf the predominanca of -fepuhlicans , and Go2pol Sw(: mp becz,loo of the nuxor-ous 1�koptist ova m': 311 --tic maotl- rlra " Weet coast Lanj A 'slater. Colyi-Pony acintred I'On acrea from Colonel 14orther-1 i-r-1 JqOj, fo7,ty of wl-ilch -,.jaa subdivided Into Focif1c City, h&p,aNIly to bceoco the "tit.lontic O1k.y of the '%,ost . " T-n 19- 03 th'' 'ton p.000h Gaz�,.)Gny, V Angelo- cyndicato , purcmaserfl corn:,nurlity ulterinr; the nurr,.o to iiuntint;ton heach in .. onor -,f :ern r•y fluntinjrton, oviner of the, Pacific ']LHctr' c Railway. ` , e company sold property (with electric wiring installations ` , toV them wf th electric sppli.ancoaq opercted the public utilities: including. the telophonm syatcm which operated daily from 6 a .m. to 9 O®mo , built streets, waterworko with resorvoir system, .:nsintuined psrkso a hotel and nursery which provided free; plants to beautify tho c 0famuni t y July 1904 was a big dmy for Huntingtop lesch® To celebrate the net3 Pacific "leci:ric line from Loa Angeleta , a free public bar- bGque was hold at Fifth and r alnut Streets. An estimated ;^,Onn oQgar buyers oame to town by horsebacks buggy and war;ons® vlesven beevea wGra e ten9 and fifty-two realtor°s were on hens 1 o seal. Vopertyp2 After tha initial boors in 1904-5, the arks re v(-.rtod to its : '-Ovi OUB gviot village o.izi.atence m The Huntington Boach ComT,any considered the ocean and beach Gr e'�3 POSOGUSOd great Oppeal as C vtalumhle cassat for f i she men rrnc. plessuro-sookors m A pavilion wo s built in 190b, and an open air bGthhouGo woo erected one block west of- t a pier at the Foot of T-'i.f'th Straot a few years latere Coles salt water from the oc..!an wQs puwtpod into the Plunge biwookly® Spectators were able to T,salk along the toy:, of the Plunge and toss coins r,)r the swimmers 1:o diva fov below. A con' mete frank on the beach h&lf wo between the pier and bothhouco containe;; e pet peal "T'ill" , s major cttracn tion on tho hoard walk. ^Biller: " tatty: was refilled biueekly when Une Pluugro water wc@ changed,,, "Intil 1920 this was t!-10 only out- door wQrm s &lt pater. Plunge in t}rango County.; in that year it ,aao racm-sdal.s �l to an ind^or 'lunge, ep,__a to the oublic frora 10-10 daily, Pew houseo in this eorly period had Insida plumbing, so -cony of the town' s reaidento made uce of the 'nothhousex wilen L'he warm salt water baths werIe installodo :-ight arnall be- tilrooms were ,provided for the use of clients. Long tima local resident, Mr. i,elbert "Rud" Higgin a ,, remembere os c boy cleaning, up the f)athronms after uao and reodying ther✓d for the next occupant wit, • clean to-vial end o ber of "Ivory" soap. In 1909 the community incorporated as sa town of t 'ihe sixth class , the sixth in Orranre County to do so ,, with or: official pi p ulation count; of 915. Further development .3 the i:j'untin: ton rleach Company laggod and they were dactrous of prcesentin}:; the beac*n frontage to the city. ,ro T. Ro 'Talbert , twice mayor and a 1 Qd- ink, citizen, was anxious to occopt the offer, but some of the more aonoerva-tivo citizens considered the scidod expense and resr;onsl— b lity too demnding, so the City Council repeatedly refused to Oceept the of`gero In 1912, howevor, the city did !iak® ti-)e decisiu: to accept tho per ko frtaom, the covapanyo Decision, Baas .made by the city to provide decent roads to anobu_rego interior visitors to oaek their pleesure at fit e bewch city for their annual bath during the summar "when the ifator is fina.4 Eaatornern uoad to a more vigorous clime considierc d ("alifornI@ oa °fewer all yeor,"5 Qna the bpsch wos f'reg!ifrited all youv without ;regard to ueal-.-oui* y 191 `iuntin,,,ton 9each wren being advartized ce a cocond L:;nag Reach with lots within three blocks of the ocaun prised of Another source publicized the city as an ideal gamily vacation spot "with 3� mires of th© boats and safeat beach in Callf3rni©o ®oeloonq reflnod amusenonto, hot salt water bethoo salt water plunge; no saloons, drinking or rowdyism.9, 6 During this decadoo a tent (At„y gj:ounds ownod by tt)e i4lethouJist Church played host to several conventions. The pastoral t irteen ocre setting in a eucalyptus grove .Within sigh-,, a . a sound of the ocoan proved appealing to convention seekerso A .went-,.,-five but—.`rcd seat roitaditorium was evollable for the reli-lously oriented and G®AoR* conventionce A family of Pour or five could rent ra cool., clean tent for 7o50 a wook- Ry* 1921, a $75,000 bond issue carried with 8 tw.o-third vote for purchase from the Huntington Beach Company of the beach area .faroia the pier to Ninth Street, but the City Council declared the ioauo void on a tGohnical.,ity*7 The Gil diocovery in 1920 chanred the character of the area for a few yeas°s® The new tape resident- - 9o'zn ^Q single males ra3do use of the opon air dance hall adjacent to the. pier. Dixie- land jazz and other :nuaic and. dances typical of the early tuentieo allowed the dance hull to operate at capacity for six nixrhts s caixe Red N cholls and the Five Pennies and later Stan Kenton. . wall known band leadera, both gained their start at this location;, In 1931, locoll citizen 'ire Talbert commenced negotiations ulth the Huntington Baeoh Company for purchase of the beach iron- tsgo from the pi.or east as fcr ca the trailer parkin Th-a net-rot- i.ations proved a nancaptGble to the, Huntington Resch Conapgny as they wish d to retain certain privilegano The city then derrundo-;� through their ottoronoys trot tho beach f'rontago be dQ ded to tho city of a�a 000to The court u,��n hanvd in San Diego Comity a • and .c compromise was rdnched. . The city received all .frontage oast of the pier and withdrew all claims to the frontage i+e.>t of the pier.8 By the thirties automobiles were beginninrto cause headechez for local authorities on Sundays and holidsys , the cosast high- way being the .craortest route to San Diego . Effect of the Railroad on Huntington Beach On July 49 1904, the Pacific Electric Railway extended its 'big red carD119 from Loa Angels and Long Beach southwcrd to Huntington Beach. Tho main depot was located gat- i'°lain and Ocean with regularly scheduled daily Fifty-eight minute runs from Los Angelec. Inauguration in 1910 of the popular sight€aeeing Triangle Run encompeasing Leas Angeles, Long Beach , Santa Ana , Bustin?tan Beach , 3a€ Pee3ro and Point rwrmin proved hir-hly suecossful for the r°ailway.10 The railway also catered to the many duck hunters who roomed the marshy areas n3ar the ocusn during the winter mont;ho. IncreasS ng use of thr auto® mobile during the twentieu couaed declinin;:; i,assen�rer business which terTfUnated in 1940, although tho freight business con- tinued until 1965 when the trucks were removal . (At this time the Southern Pacific owned the right of way, but the city today has right of way for a mile east of the pier, and the Huntington pseif ie Company owns the 2.1_ miles west of the pier) . The Pier The Huntington Beach Coup&ny built a wooden pier in 1904.11 In lwo a heavy winter stor, , ciarriaged the untreated wooden atrut;turo olre:ady weasken€ d by marine life acid bernocles . The Huntington D .@CIL Company rebnu .lt tl.e pier from debris . but t„11.3 al o' was wasc;ed out in 10,1C. The City Council headed t-y Mir. T91-, rt decided to float a bond issue in the amount of "W700O00.00 for a -nodern c-ancrete stri-icture; the issue passed and at 11 s .m. on June 1?, 1914, a now pier 132n feet In. len-th was formally ded1cated . nn "and to sis;nal the event were the Ponatelli Italian !s ynd , ai splays of Japanese `'enci.ng end sword dancing, a band concert, .races and events ( with a . first price of $11 per event) , the entire da,y' s festivities topped off with the festival chorus 6.1vinf: a roi)sin�, version of Frankenste' n' s "I Love You California."12 During the twentiso , littler pollution wa: �-cvi.dent and the kelps .hods off 23rd Street provided excellent f1 shim, fir black boas and yellowtail. No boats left the pier because tE,Q larve breolke-ro broke at the end of the structure ct.: -s1.n hazardous condit".one , the Tiler bein shorter st that time than It is today. After the passaFa of another bond issu© , work co nmenced on the addi.tiAn of 50r' fect In July, 1930, t:he Tier attainin,.. a len gth 9f 1820 foot when dedlected on April 6 , 1931. On Sunday, September 29 , 1939a a Heavy atorm frora the south washed away 294 feet of the p4ero Twenty-three foot h i F_?, waves washed over the pier t-ree f'oat deer demolishing all the builcinEs at they end of the strueturem The damn-re uau r epai peck in August 1940 with a winden pier of . k:r oosotod pur•a fir pi.lingo wi th s ddod Too ' s to str nsthcn the zqt: alietuvo0 Addlti-�nal renovation in 1950 repaired the first 1311;, foot zooward o by 1959 the new pi.or length reached 1 2108 feet, 28 feat high to combat an'.,., large waves. (In 1965 sand end root uoro houlod in Pron Cptoli a and built into a U-sbaped roof 150 foot out nrourud the erv2 of the pioro This has Vied thy+ effcot of ::lowing; doom the current and propa:1,atini.- the fish and niL:rine life. 'bats are unaffected as t he reef is --.,ly ton fect in tlii-.-ty feet 6f water. Nineteen sixty-three isuw 21nonp, visitof,: on t,)e pier for fishing and pleasureq the fi ..lher­icri Lin,-Jlni-, vod rock cod., yello,.-ifin,, opotfing, "-)as sun Tli­­ch, 6-nd a varioty of a-ull fish fr,-)m the pier ar.0 ne8rlbj areas, 1 shim; Althou.-h the sport is not as rewarding), as in earlicr days. sh ing in the area known as !Tuzzitin�;tnn ­Iz-As cor' intles to rye :i major attractiin. Pollution has caused f! sP.j.n!­ to deteriovLtes, the oil Industry givinE.- out a high sulpha;.- content In th.- it wasto, in addition to detergent and sewerw7e Dollutiono -In he vorV early days an extremely large cockle was frequently 4@sheo asi-ore In ticke of stormo , but this too has disappeared as rave -- � e sardines aiid anc-ioviea used Par bait in earlier i:,nars..'14 The 7lots have boen formeA over the 'years by the effect of sand dumped by the Santa Aria ., San Gabriel cnd Los :,nj-eles -rivers oeoi8ing shallow water axtt�nding seaward for approximstdly fourteen miles , with t: depth of only thirty foot a mile out. Vioibility is poor eta t''As depth dua to murky water with resultant deterioration 1 L! I".' e 14 e r e�a for many years has boon dumped in the ocean 70010 teat nut n,ar the mouth of the Santa Ana river polluting the 6n4ire Berea . Today a now ayotem Is under conutruotion extendinp seaward five •Lmiles with Cross pipes every ton feet so thG waste may r)e more evenly distributed, (With this now aystam, and the cooperation of th.-: oil companioa, the Hoolth Pepartnisnt hopes within two yearc the fiah- iug will imppova no in pcot day�.,, Sinco 1933 a boat has left daily during th�) @UMdel- seacaa fox, th,3 -_,iLhiiig bargo anchomd off olhore on top of an area appropriatoly called: Halibut Flotoo Grunion runs are also as popular today ac In the post* Beach Aree In 1904, onpi.,7oximately 2000 people used thobGach as against 6 .5 m-Illi,n In 196,8. 9luffe 8-35 feet high extGnded o distance of 2-7 miles alon*,-, the beach , -making it inaccousible to ho�,soa and wagons except from either end of the bluffoo For t ,o first two decades of the century, picnic facilities were available east of the pier. Tho . Pavil ' on, Plunge, pier cnd numoroua othGr conces- r--,i:)-,Ls were tnn attract-Ion. Bicycles,, automobilea and planea -made use of the {j1de beach In the twentioa. In 1921 the. engine on a small plane fa.1 l-ed;. the plane plumeted to earth topping the corner of the 111un!7.,e and crasi-ing on the beach Two spect2atore sitting ' neor the ,,jere :tilled , salt hoi*- ,h the pilot and passenzora sur- vived t�' . crash , Joy rides In World I..'ar I fighter planoz (JN4 or "Jenny" hiplane ) were availablecast of the pier on the flat beach on days of low tides. Tor passengers enjoyed a short rido, for t'--e pilot: would loop the loopo After the crash in 1921 the p ,actice was e 11-m1nated.15 A new Flavill.-n was built in 1939 li,,Ilth Yo o funds with dance hall above and picnic focilitiec be- neuth t}-,e dance lr�nll, but businses gradually declinod so in 1950 t�-e hall was re�nndeled Into as skating . rink. �y 196o t�!o Paviliin was once a a n a dance hall fov teeno. Damaged by fire in 1966, t'.-1e str :stare was rehmilt Into the present fine rr-,stallront. General -.)'I the. Plunge and concessions wa3 apparent by 19LI-0 . PeJuvr-.not]*,,,-)n of the life uspi facilitiee was uridertak:,-,,i and re,,j joillip,nent -111-,As brn7i;-,ht clean tiro, beach more, JO Ships have never docked at 'tuntini;ton 'each due to shallow allow water, but; numerous vessels from all over t;ie %,orld .have run a mound Usually set on course for u:-n Pedro , if a 6e} Pee or so off, the,T would run aground east and west o.f the picir. 7n the thirties the aircraft carrier "Le;xinc_-tonlf plouc,hea into the sand off 23rd Streot one and bne-half -qilos west of thr Fier in a fog bank* Planes® fuel and crew had to be tskcer. off before she could be re.flosted.lb Occasionally two or three of the 1ifeLiards would tie roped around :heir vraists and tow some of the small.;r craft some 1000 feet seaward into deep©r water to await the Gciast Guard,, During; the war years, 1941-45, the Coast Artillery took .oven the end of the pier, the lifeguard headquarters for ra i.o and radar otrationno They regularly .patrolled t►,,e beach on horses jnu from down to dusk the area woe off liraits t-,a11 civilian personnel.© Many private and military planes came to rest on the ocean floor aver the yearn® In late 1942, Fa P38 pilot baled out inlande Narrowly missing some electrical wires . ,he plane exploded in a ball of fire and sank in the ocean a thousand faet out ® Six children on the beach -ware burned to death and fort; spectators i.reated for burn. aa Beach conc©ssionaires became quite wealthy 1:lirinf the Wo yeavo. with the high wag©o of the wax' workers , and the city was ob- liged to provide additional facilities to handle Lt:e dem..!ndm Debris from all over the :tiorld is found on the beech after a atorza. In tie wor years the Navy dumped much food and a,+irnunition overboarl which .flash©d ashoroa leachcombers in more recent years havo corzbQd the land wit � motal l.ocat )rs 1 ,)r rrloney, jewelry and sundry Tlijtal itow--1 ; ona porticulM,-ly int,oresting item found wz-G e., coin dtato'? 1834017 1' :til recent yoaraB the on).y .friction on the ;)eracn was rivalry b4ttisecn t1he3 varioua h irh sch,snl arc; collc,-o crowds , u:aually settled e-mic;ably. tjost erimo is of the petty; theft variety it.d radial Problcros hove been practicall-T non-existent . r.ecia:li f trluined aolice 'r_ave been trained in recent years to h,�.ndle :any -,o ; cricial d; aZ'urbanoess Surfing Surfing commenced in 1927 when "pud" i;;.Jns and f,ir. uene ^elshe, early day residents, built their first surfboards of solid redi•iood shipped in from Oregon and costin,o- .40- (` i or tie two boards . In 1926 Duke K€ahanamoku of Stanford f'niversity and 'flswai,i came to Orange County to make a movie, and 9ud and Gene speht muc^ ti�riei surf- ing with him at their favorites locale - Corona del. "ear. :•:any of the local boys learned to surf in than early thirties so t h&t by 1935 fifty or sixty wer surfing regularly in the area west of the pie j-e; The waves here wore excellent all ye r ena t�,e: beach was e&sily accessible from the pier. Life7uard Service Early boach enthusiasts were mainly poor swimmers® All agae swam,, but men and women were herripe;red by tt:e �avy clothiii�. they were compelled to we ar. Prior to tho first lifegu*iaru service in 1918 several drownings each summer were customary. . n old law dat® Ing back to 1886 required that a lifeboat and life preserver were necessary a t all watorinr placea , and from, the beginning of t he cen- tury, to dory uata always kept by the ,pier to. comply wi tit t-i l s law. Until the early twenties., most swimmers utilized ti.e doe; paddl®v breaat or side strokes, to be followed by the Australian and American cr©vloo car. }dud Higgins was head of` the lifeguard ser- vico from 193' to 1950; in 1932 additional crowda warranted fairing of lifoguorda on a aro regula�, bnois. Qualifications woo strict 10 Only coller7e boys or potential colle,;�a boy,-, were. 'A-red after a rl id physical examination. fie str-)ons anc lifC."Llard. statl-ns were bu!lt in 1931,and In 1945 a modern llfgE-jlard s,j,otem jn&-,aC;i)rE1t(jd . T-'rom taco seasonal liferruards with no stcticn in 1918, the present summer staff comprises 70 men, 2`5 stations , jeeps ono rescue boats for I-r.nedlste first aid* Effect of Oil EILES2verZ "Fow would you like to own a lot fronting; rifyht smack on the PEcTic ocean? You car, have one , free, wit'--, escl,­; Let 74* Dur b^-Iks ." This advertisement appeared in t1ne Midw,-�, t in r 4-0 Ic')12, dly c'.11anging the lives of --,wny who took advantaL.-.e of the 0t'fcro t I ir r, residents in Tows , T.ndisna and Illinois wura offered lots !.n 11untinCton Reach with a aet of encyclopaedivs p-..ircb6zGd for '11426 , "oeatho greatest bargain in books the wnrld haz ever Venal hundred acres were puRZL-,zMZd at ..")50 por acre , split into twelve lots Dor acre for a cost to the Job-Der of <1'4, -17 Pei- lot, 11'nose lots proved to be a small bonanza wh®n oil was discovorod,-1- 19 1920 these sams Iota were worth ".2000. Two small Los "ni- las �D�a ad aompmnles, Glolo Petroleum Corporation and ::ha lianC,a 011 "'Ooripany combed the recorda for owners from whoin they could buy or lease lots. Glnbevo first well come in. with 4000 barrels U day, nataed twst appro- priately ONnoyclopoodia No . le" Tho oil boom transformed the city from a family t-vpa seaside r000rt to a boom city. New workers from each places as YUMav Saskatchewan, Idaho T', 911G and Venture arrived wo.ekly.19 Overni&ht the city oxpandod froze 3000 to 109M01 - llous�ing was in short supply and the young workors slept anywhere they could, c,.at.-,ping east and voct of the plor for half a mill In a motley collection oftenth and sphacks, on top and below the bluffs. until 1926 when the oil boom declined , fiuntington Tleach was the playF�rnund of the young oil workers. In 1932, Mr. H. :AcVicer :first introduced to the world the whipstock apparatus for slant drillin£; into thw rich: tideland oil pool from the uplands. nany : ells west of 23rd ;street were drilled in this manner, the most famous , "'Jicaroo I " - the first to be slant drillers tapping a basin 4450 feet helow Lice ocean. July 4th Celebration Annual patriotic celebrations for July 4 were originated by the Chamber of Commerce in 1904. Bathing beauty contests, Twins Competition Conventiong band concerts , patriotic speeches and parades were all vigorously promoted ever the •,years. Five hued red dollars was expended on the first Fireworks display in 1915 - fixed rockets and pinwheels.2.0 Future Plans Since the thirtioa the beach area has prof .cterd a general run-down appearaneee Buildings erected during i.he oil boors days are delopidated, and the turnerer rate of airiall businesses is high.21 -The -City Council in a general rede�, •lopment plan recently arprovhd a project in which aeresga on both sides of the pf er will ultimately evolve into a "Ports of 0m ll" type community.22 Hi ®toa°iaa: SL,nsuel Armour expressed his farsighted viewpoint in 1921 when he wrote: . "060Huntington Beach will not only maintain its place in the struggle for existence, but it will forge' ahead of some of its less favored competitors andhecome one of Orange County's important cities*" 23 The future indeed looks •.bright for Huntington Beach. . �2 . The Historienl Volume « Deference Worls ,, 7ol. III ,' Orant:,e Co , — 17 Whittier, ca'=. W5)p. 21� 2 T. R. Talbert 2a Sixt Years in California , Oiuntinrt,)n :'each, 1952% p. 3 Infor!-,stlon "rom Mro YPelbart TJ i,�,i n a T ur.t1r,,;,-t.Dr, 1M.1-tcricn 4 Samu�,l Armor, Fi3tory of nranze Count , -%'Los ArFil s; 1-921) P. 101 5 Ibid. p. 101 6 Mlacellaneous Information file on lcii)ntingtor�t each , ( : ton '.3 each C-1 Library, 1969) 7 The flistor j'.cbl Volume & Reference 'Works, Vol: 1110 Orange County,, 8 Ibldp p. 225 9 TT Iversity of California , Trvine, Prochur 4`1 Pletory of Orsne,,e . n e . County, Vol. 17 , (Dec. 1969) 10 C . T . sn6 Marilyn Parker, Indiana to Industry,, ('arts Ana . 196.5) p972 11 Some- diserepancy exists as to the year the first nler was hull' ;,ir. -Talbart ' s book states a wooden structure was built In 1902 P-83) ; the ?range C,,unty '!:Tlstorical Volume , ':-* 3 (*erc:nca %-Jorks , 'V-o1.­1II19pe217# atates the Huntinpton 'Iesch Co. erected the first pier) . 12 A 10 _ -am !'or Jul�1 , 1904 festivities ) (Personal ty, Tile of—M—F.—71—g-1 n ST—13 Historical Volume ;r. riefei,euce 'W*nj-ka ,, Vol. 111 , 217 14 Tnform2tion from Mr. Fib:-inal files , 1.969 15 Ibid. 16 Ibid* 17 Ibid. 18 P atoatat z;L Laran&t Art ft (undruted ) in ;i.untln,..toyi 3each Mi'sceAsneous Information [0116 of .4ewspbp,-jr urW mugazine Cuttings collected from various sources pertainin,,.- to the aarly days of the city, 1969 19 Huntington Beach News, December 17 # 1920, ]lhoto'sTst,, :iuntinF--Iton .'each 20 Info", atlon from Mr. Delbert Ni 7,t7irs,, October * 1960 ( „2000 to spent today on Japanese manufactured cericl bombs) 21 Santi, ALna Re I )tar, 11, .1969 M-�a I v-spen-Rn-j"'YDesch ground today do not encourage d6velopment by private anterpr1as who usually prefer catering to a more affluent 22 E'E Ol.Y OL 6ratiy,® i.CT..inty, P. h,2 t _ ! 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