File:Viewing Water Sports From Pleasure Pier, Long Beach, California.jpg

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Description
English: Prior to the invention of skis, a sport, wherein, the participant was pulled along the water at a rate fast enough to hold the person above. This image was a crude drawing, perhaps added to the postcard by the original publisher, prior to 1914. It may be the earliest depiction of the sport.
Date
Source Postcard
Author M Kashower Co, Los Angeles

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Captions

Early Aquaplaning, Artist Rendition.

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

1 June 1907Gregorian

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