It always seems like Long Beach is looking for another tourist attraction. Right now, it's the Queen Mary and the Long Beach Aquarium, which I admit, is pretty impressive. So, in 1931 it was the Rainbow Pier. It was a rainbow-shaped fishing pier, 3800 feet long, with a roadway on the top that allowed cars to drive over the Pacific Ocean. Eventually, rotting pilings and storm damage made repairs prohibitively expensive so the Rainbow Pier became the Rainbow Lagoon after a hell of a lot of rock and dirt was dumped where the pier once was. This card was once pasted into a photo album, so most of the back is covered in black construction paper. I can't make out any of the written message, just a few letters that were exposed when it was removed from the album. I can make out part of the postmark, so it was mailed. Dated, 1937.
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