I found this postcard with the following caption at
jhgraham.com:
"It’s doubtful anyone actually counted them, but the midway’s “Walk of a Thousand Lights” lit up the Pike at night all the way to Chestnut Place."
jhgraham.com
While I was reading the page above, I saw this picture of the Victory Fountain:
"The Victory Fountain was a new addition to the north end of the Pike at Chestnut Place in September 1926 in remembrance of World War I veterans. Designed by Edwardes Sproat, it stood 45-ft. high and was equipped with electric lights that flashed in time to the water’s spray. At the top was a mirrored ball that reflected the lights at night. Postcard view and 9-26-26 LA Times."
jhgraham.com
You can see the statue in this aerial I posted the other day. It's the oval structure just below the center.
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Originally Posted by HossC
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Here's a closer view from 1926.
UCLA
The statue's obviously not there now, but I can't even see it on the 1953 aerial view. I found someone else looking for it at
millikanalumni.com:
We are assembling an inventory of all WWI memorials and monuments in the US, and I'm having a hard time figuring out what happened to the American Legion Victory Fountain erected on the north end of the Pike in 1926.
I found an article in the Long Beach Independent from 1941 that discussed the possibility of moving the fountain to the south side of Memorial Auditorium, but I lose the trail after that (and don't know if the fountain was ever moved there). I'd be grateful for any help/clues.
Thanks,
Mark Levitch, PhD, World War I Memorial Inventory Project
Does anyone know what happened to the memorial?
LAPL has a couple more pictures
here and
here.