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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). After it closed and fell into disrepair, the park and pier anchored the Dogtown area of Santa ...
Ocean Park Branch library, an original Carnegie library, July 2009. In December 1916, the commissioners of Santa Monica selected the site for the Ocean Park branch Carnegie library at 2601 Main Street. [2] The library was funded by a $12,500 grant from the Carnegie Corporation. The library was opened to the public on February 15, 1918.
Schooler, whose Swing Shift Dances had originally been held at the nearby Casino Gardens, signed a 10-year lease in 1942 for the old Ocean Park venue, which was said to have 1,500 electric lights and 14,000 square feet (1,300 m 2) of floor space, from owner Charles Lick. Schooler renamed it the Aragon, then spent some $50,000 to refurbish it.
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. It is the only amusement park directly located on the West Coast of the United States located on a pier and LA's only admission-free park.
The Dome Pier proper opened on Saturday, June 3, 1922. [1] The Dome Pier measured 1,500 feet (460 m) by 263 feet (80 m). [2] The week of the pier's opening, it also was announced that the Dome Pier, Fraser's Ocean Park Pier, and Pickering's Pleasure Pier had been connected together into an amusement park that developers claimed was the biggest entertainment pier in the world. [3]
Palisades Park is a 26.4-acre (10.7 ha) park in Santa Monica, California. The park is located along a 1.6-mile (2.6 km) section of Ocean Avenue on top of an uplifted unconsolidated sedimentary coastal Quaternary terrace with exposed bluffs, offering views of both the Pacific Ocean and the coastal mountains.
Pacific Ocean Park—former (1958–1967) amusement park one pier south of Santa Monica Pier; demolished in 1974. The Pike —former (1905–1979) amusement zone along the shoreline of Long Beach, CA, demolished in 1979.
The Ocean Park fire that destroyed Fraser's Million Dollar Pier was discovered between 4:45 and 4:55 p.m. [38] on the evening of Tuesday, September 3, 1912, in the Coney Island chowder house in the Casino building. [3] [22] [39] [40] [38] The cause was possibly a defective flue, [41] or possibly a poorly extinguished cigarette. [42]