Keywords: PontchartrainBeach1940WPABeachgoers.jpg Pontchartrain Beach New Orleans 1940 WPA built sand beach at Lake Pontchartrain which already is becoming very popular to New Orleans bathers One of the two 400-foot groins which form the boundaries of the beach and protect it from wave wash can be seen in this photograph From Works Progress Administration photographic collection doccumenting development of New Orleans Lakefront via http //www nutrias org/~nopl/photos/wpa/wpa24 htm 1940-07-16 Uncredited WPA photographer PD-USGov 1940 in New Orleans Beaches of Louisiana Pontchartrain Beach |