Looking south from end of Ocean Front Walk south of Washington Street, Los Angeles County, 1940

Photograph (engineering notebook photoprint) looking south from end of Ocean Front Walk south of Washington Street, Los Angeles County. No serious erosion here, but note narrow beach. This was the result of high tides (6.8 feet and 6.6 feet), accompanied by heavy ground swells and breakers which did considerable damage to piers and ocean front property between Hermosa Beach and Santa Monica along the route of the proposed "Ocean Front Walk" location of State Route 163. The high tide on 25 January occurred at 8:52 A.M. and measured 6.6 feet. This photograph was taken with the ebb tide at 10:30 A.M. Also visible are: houses, wooden railings, benches, oil derricks, ocean. No legible signs