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The Third Street Promenade is a pedestrian mall esplanade, shopping, dining and entertainment complex in the downtown area of Santa Monica, California which originally opened as the Santa Monica Mall on November 8, 1965. [3] It is considered a premier shopping and dining district on the Westside and draws crowds from all over the Greater Los ...
Santa Monica Place is an outdoor shopping mall in Santa Monica, California. The mall is located at the south end of Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade shopping district, two blocks from the beach and Santa Monica Pier. The mall originally opened in 1980 as an indoor mall, and underwent a massive, three-year reconstruction process beginning ...
The following page is a list of shopping malls in the U.S. state of California. The largest malls, with a gross leasable area of at least 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m 2 ), are in bold font, with a ranking number based on size and date.
Once Santa's Monica's signature destination for shopping and dining, the Third Street Promenade is showing its age. Its decline has left the promenade's landlords and city officials trying to ...
In Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), the theft of Pee-wee's bike occurs on the Third Street Promenade. [124] Henry Jaglom's indie Someone to Love (1987), the last film in which Orson Welles appeared, takes place in Santa Monica's venerable Mayfair Theatre. Heathers (1988) used Santa Monica's John Adams Middle School for many exterior shots.
The western border of Santa Monica, California, is the 3-mile (4.8 km) stretch of Santa Monica Bay.On its other sides, the city is bordered by various districts of Los Angeles: the northwestern border is Pacific Palisades, the eastern border is Brentwood north of Wilshire Boulevard and West Los Angeles south of Wilshire, the northeastern border is generally San Vicente Boulevard up to the ...
The Midnight Special Bookstore was an independent bookstore in southern California. It catered to a leftist clientele. [3] [4] Its merchandise and events emphasized current events such as the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, [5] the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, [6] the Chinese democracy movement [7] and U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Market Place covers an area of 165 acres (670,000 m 2) [3] and has more than 120 stores, restaurants, cafes and theaters. Designed by Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, it consists of monumental but extremely simplified cubic forms, with anchor stores marked by massive towers roughly 70 feet (21 m) high displaying the store name.