[Jewell Groth and Marjorie Gruber on the Merry-Go-Round at Playland at the Beach]

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Local identifier: AAC-0169
Title: [Jewell Groth and Marjorie Gruber on the Merry-Go-Round at Playland at the Beach]
Date: 1947 Feb. 19
Issuance: monographic
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Note: Folder: S.F. Districts-Ocean Beach-Playland-Merry-Go-Round.
Newscopy: "'THE WINNAH'-The ponies are running out in Playland-at-the-Beach where the 365-day meeting of the 'Racing Derby' opened last weekend. Here Jewell Groth presents Marjorie Gruber's wooden horse a floral horseshoe for nosing in first during a four-horse race. There are 14 four-horse lines on the overgrown merry-go-round and horse speeds average close to 20 miles an hour. Race victors get a free ride. The new contraption cost $70,000 to build, is the third in the world to be constructed."
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Playland at the Beach (San Francisco, Calif.)
Merry-go-round--California--San Francisco
Ocean Beach (San Francisco, Calif.)
Subject Name: Playland at the Beach (San Francisco, Calif.)
Bibliographic Number: .b10150766
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:130077