Photograph taken after the widening of Main Street, Santa Monica, 1930

Description

Handwritten on edge of nitrate negative: 1525, -118.4802325, Photograph taken at the intersection of Main Street and Pier Avenue after the widening of Main Street. A Santa Monica Dairy Co. flat bed truck carrying a large replica of a milk bottle with two women and one man seated next to the bottle and a child seated on top of the bottle is in the center of the intersection. Signs on the truck read: "A quart of milk a day for every child; health, strength and beauty in every bottle, Santa Monica Dairy M...; The 5 milk fairies.", Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Santa Monica, Main St., new widening, 1930. Greater Main Street, Mr. Applehoff, Ocean Park, 33.9986469, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.