- City:
- Long Beach, CA
- Site Type:
- Maritime: Harbors, Ports & Lighthouses, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) reconstructed the retaining walls along Naples Canal in Long Beach, CA, after the 1933 earthquake “caused a slump in the sidewalk area directly behind the wall, making a dangerous passageway for pedestrians and threatening the stability of homes back of the property line” (Connolly and Farman).
Source notes
Donald H. Connolly and G. I. Farman, Report of Accomplishments of the Operations Division, Works Progress Administration, Southern California, January 1, 1939.
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on April 18, 2016.
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