Structure Type: built works - recreation areas and structures

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: [unspecified]

Long Beach, CA

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The pier floor connecting it to the Long Beach Civic Auditorium collapsed 05/24/1913. Thirty-eight people, lined up to enter the auditorium, were killed in the accident. A supporting girder was ill-protected from salt-air, sunlight and rain, and gave way under an abnormally large load.

PCAD id: 11158