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THE SNAZZY ERA: Art Deco, even more than 80 years after its coming-out party in Paris in 1925, still has a huge following. Most of us like it for the same reason a few cranky nay-sayers say nay to it: It's over the top. It screams opulence even as its boom times were sandwiched sullenly between the poverty of the end of the Great War and the kick-off of the Great Depression.
Any town that was alive during those peak years of the movement tend to show plenty of examples of Art Deco, even in those towns, like Long Beach, where many of the great Art Deco-styled buildings have been destroyed or mal-remodeled in the drunkenly zig-zaggy course of mismanaged progress.See the full content of this document
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But there are still plenty of examples left, particularly in downtown and the East Village, all along Pine, Elm and Linden avenues, Ocean and Long Beach boulevards and First...
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