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No place exudes that Southern California hang-10 beach vibe more than Santa Monica. Posted 2017-11-08T16:35:14+00:00 - Updated 2017-09-28T18:19:41+00:00 By ...
The original Looff carousel on the Santa Monica Pier was sold off a long time ago, but the current merry-go-round, the bureaucratically named Philadelphia Toboggan Co. Carousel #62, ...
There’s a lot going on at the Santa Monica Pier, ... for decades’ worth of postcards along with the numerous rides at the ... carousel in 1922, named Santa Monica’s first ...
In many ways, the story of the carousel and the Santa Monica Pier is the story of the city. Advertisement In 1909, when Santa Monica was growing, a municipal pier was built to send treated sewage ...
Santa Monica Pier is ranked #2 out of 14 things to do in Santa Monica. ... Some of its most popular amenities include a historic carousel (housed in the Looff Hippodrome), ...
Looff opened the Hippodrome on June 12, 1916, and the Santa Monica Pier will be celebrating the Moorish-style building's first hundred years on June 12 of this year.
On Friday, the Santa Monica Pier will celebrate 115 years as one of Southern California’s most recognizable landmarks with live entertainment and family activities planned throughout the day.
Preservationists are trying to save Carousel Park in Santa Monica. 24/7 Live Los Angeles Orange County Inland Empire Ventura County California. Welcome, Mickey. [email protected].
The crowd chatter in the carousel house was interrupted by a loud and cheerful organ song. The organ’s pipes blew, its base drum kept the beat and the carousel turned--its horses carrying ...
Excerpted from "Santa Monica Pier: America’s Last Great Pleasure Pier" by James Harris (Angel City Press, 2024) For more than two decades, James Harris has been the executive director of the ...
Santa Monica Pier offers over 100 years of maritime memories, but this year, it celebrates 50 years of facing demolition and surviving, becoming the seaside icon we’re lucky to have today ...