Looking south from end of Ocean Walk at 34th Street, Hermosa Beach, showing concrete walk undermined and cracked by heavy surf, Los Angeles County, 1940

Photograph (engineering notebook photoprint) looking south from end of Ocean Walk at 34th Street, Hermosa Beach, showing concrete walk undermined and cracked by heavy surf, Los Angeles County. This was the result of a 6.2 tide on 9 January 1940 accompanied by heavy ground swells and 30 foot breakers which did considerable damage to piers and ocean front property between Newport Beach and Malibu. Also visible are: houses, porches, benches, pedestrian with umbrella (it is raining), street lights, railing, beach, ocean. No legible signs.