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Pacific Ocean Park was a 28-acre (11-hectare) nautical-themed amusement park built on a pier at Pier Avenue in the Ocean Park section of Santa Monica, California in 1958. Intended to compete with Disneyland, it replaced Ocean Park Pier (1926–1956).
From the fifties to the sixties, Pacific Ocean Park (POP) was a family-oriented Los Angeles attraction designed by Hollywood’s finest. Its beachside location sat on 28 acres at the border of Santa Monica and Venice Beach and made for a glamorous amusement park that extended out into the Pacific Ocean.
Pacific Ocean Park–or as it was commonly known in Los Angeles from the '50s through the '70s, P.O.P.–was extraordinary in both its glamorous rise and spectacular fall.
But when it opened in July 1958, more than half a century ago, Pacific Ocean Park — or P.O.P., as it came to be known — was the thing: an amusement park that married Venice Beach’s kitschy seaside carnival culture with the space-age Modern architecture of the late 1950s.
Photos: Remembering Pacific Ocean Park. From the late 1950s to the late ‘60s, Angelenos looking for music, dancing and rides, found the party at Pacific Ocean Park. The beachside theme park – that jetted out into the Pacific – sat on 28 acres of land at the border of Santa Monica and Venice.
But when it opened in July 1958, more than half a century ago, Pacific Ocean Park — or P.O.P., as it came to be known — was the thing: an amusement park that married Venice Beach’s kitschy...
It’s almost difficult to imagine that, in living memory, Pacific Ocean Park (POP) occupied 87 acres of that span, offering rides, games and midcentury-era thrills of all kinds.
See stunning views of the Santa Monica Pier. Watch nightly light programs on the Pacific Wheel. Look at the surf, sand and sea at Santa Monica Beach from Malibu to Palos Verdes. Pacific Park’s Santa Monica Pier cams stream live video 24/7 from the world-famous Santa Monica Pier.
They called the new park Pacific Ocean Park. The 28 acre park was decorated throughout in a sea-green and white art moderne look. Its entrance set amidst fountains, sculptures and large sea horse and clam shell decorated frieze, set the mood for the wonders within.
From 1958 to 1967, Pacific Ocean Park was a 28-acre nautical-themed amusement park on a pier in Santa Monica, Calif.