Ocean Beach Improvements - Long Beach NY

Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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Description

The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Ocean Beach [Park] and many of its attendant facilities during the 1930s. One project called for the reconstruction of “life guard stations, comfort stations, locker rooms, restaurants, and fences.”

Source notes

National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration;
Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T936; roll 9.

Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 16, 2014.

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