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Pacific Park is an oceanfront amusement park located in Santa Monica, California. The park, located on the Santa Monica Pier , looks directly out on the Pacific Ocean , in the direction of Santa Catalina Island .
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). After it closed and fell into disrepair, the park and pier anchored the Dogtown area of Santa ...
Palisades Amusement Park was a 38-acre amusement park located in Bergen County, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York City. It was located atop the New Jersey Palisades, lying partly in Cliffside Park and partly in Fort Lee. The park operated from 1898 until 1971, remaining one of the most visited amusement parks in the country ...
Pacific Park—the current amusement park portion of the pier. Hot Dog on a Stick—original, opened in 1946, found on the sidewalk just south of the pier in front of Muscle Beach. Pacific Ocean Park—former (1958–1967) amusement park one pier south of Santa Monica Pier; demolished in 1974.
Marineland of the Pacific, June, 1965 Family Adventure Swim. Marineland of the Pacific was a public oceanarium and tourist attraction located on the Palos Verdes Peninsula coast in Los Angeles County, California. Architect William Pereira designed the main structure. It was also known as Hanna-Barbera's Marineland during the late 1970s and ...
Amusement park City Years of operation Notes Ref. Arlington Beach Park Arlington: 1923–1929 Buckroe Beach Amusement Park Hampton: 1897–1985 [96] Forest Hill Park Richmond: 1890s–1932 Holy Land USA Bedford: 1972–2009 Idlewood Amusement Park Richmond: 1902–1910s Named West End Electrical Park from 1906 to the 1910s. Lakeside Amusement ...
This list of amusement park rankings summarizes the attendance ... This section has the top 15 water parks in Asia-Pacific in order of annual attendance. Rank Water park
Playland (also known as Playland-at-the-Beach and Whitney's Playland, beginning in 1928 [1] – some say 1926 [2]) was a 10-acre (40,000-square-meter) seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach, in the Richmond District at the western edge of San Francisco, California, along Great Highway, bounded by Balboa and Fulton streets. [1]