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Home / Gallery of @McGeekiest Cachets / Gallery Categories / Library Centennial Series / Ocean Beach Branch Library covers

Ocean Beach Branch Library covers

35th in a series

Location:

4801 Santa Monica Ave
San Diego, CA  92107-2810

Research:

From the OB Rag newspaper:

At last Saturday night’s celebration of the OB Library’s centennial, the OB Friends of the Library handed out a little 6-page booklet entitled, “The Amazing Story of the Ocean Beach Library Centennial and How It Soon Will Become a 21st Century Facility”. We republish the pages below. [1]

From News Notes of California Libraries, volume 11:

Ocean Beach Branch, San Diego Public Library. Irma Brink, Custodian. Est. Mar 4, 1916. Open daily 2 to 5 p.m.; Sat. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Located at Abbott and Santa Monica sts. 22 mags. and 1 newspaper rec'd regularly. [2]

Notes:

Be sure to follow the link in [1] to see the reproductions of the brochure pages.

Original Image Credit:

The OB Rag newspaper

References:

  1. "The Amazing Story of the Ocean Beach Library Centennial". September 16, 2016. OB Rag [Ocean Beach, CA]. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  2. News Notes of California Libraries, volume 11, page 450. Print. Digitized at Google.

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