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The Santa Monica Pier is a large pier at the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California, United States. It contains a small amusement park, concession stands, and areas for views and fishing.
Santa Monica Municipal Pier opened in 1909; it was primarily to carry sewer pipes out beyond the breakers and had no amenities. In 1916, Charles I. D. Looff, who built Coney Island's first carousel, started construction on an adjacent pier known as the Pleasure Pier, also called Newcomb Pier, for use as an amusement park.
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 ...
Another boardwalk beauty! Santa Monica's famed pier is home to concession stands, biking routes, fishing spots and Pacific Park: Los Angeles's only admission-free amusement park. The model is pay ...
The Santa Monica Pier's Sea Dragon ride, which opened in 1996, was retired Thursday and replaced by a new, $1.5-million ride. Sea Dragon ride on Santa Monica Pier swings away into retirement Skip ...
The theme park’s adjacent commercial district, CityWalk, which does not charge admission, will be open. ... The Santa Monica Pier will be open, along with its Pacific Park amusement rides, ...
The city council approved a plan to replace the pier with a resort island in Santa Monica Bay. Local activists formed Save Santa Monica Bay and shot down that plan, [9] and in 1973 the city formally revoked a standing order to demolish the pier. [10] The city acquired ownership of the pier in summer 1974. [11]
It became their first amusement park and residential project. A horse-racing track, pier, and golf course were built near the Ocean Park Casino. Kinney convinced the Santa Fe Railroad to extend its Inglewood line north to his resort. When his partner Francis Ryan died in October 1898, his widow's new husband, Thomas H. Dudley, sold their half ...