Venice Beach, California, 1952

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It seems like they had parades for just about every occasion, large or small, in 1950s Southern California. New highways, new supermarkets, even new parking lots, judging from this photo of the 929-car capacity Venice Beach parking lot that opened in May 1952, found on the USC Digital Libraries online collection. What do you see here?

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