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Catalina by Sea - A Transportation History

English · Paperback / Softback

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A fancy flight of lyrics specifies that Santa Catalina Island is 26 miles across the sea. But mapmakers put the distance at 19.7 miles from the closest island point, Doctor's Cove (near Arrow Point), to the closest mainland locale, Point Fermin at San Pedro. Today boats and helicopters operating out of the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Newport Beach, and Dana Point transport musing songwriters and everyone else to Catalina for the song's much-promised romance, romance, romance, romance, as well as fishing, sightseeing, and gainful employment. But the history of getting to and from the island's ports of Avalon and Two Harbors has been an epic across centuries of business and pleasure, involving a collective flotilla of side-wheelers, yachts, lumber schooners, steamships, water taxis, converted military vessels, crew boats, and today's fast and convenient jet boats.

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This unique photographic history by Jeannine L. Pedersen covers public transportation to and from the island, well as channel crossings activities steamship greetings. Pedersen, the curator of the Catalina Island Museum, gathered more than 200 vintage photographs from the museum's extensive archives to illustrate Catalina Island's transportation lore.

Product details

Authors Catalina Island Museum, Jeannine L Pedersen, Jeannine L. Pedersen, The Catalina Island Museum
Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 19.04.2006
 
EAN 9780738531168
ISBN 978-0-7385-3116-8
No. of pages 128
Dimensions 167 mm x 235 mm x 9 mm
Weight 322 g
Series Images of America (Arcadia Pub
Images of America (Arcadia Pub
Images of America
Subject Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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