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.

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 ...

Officers responded to a radio call for service at the Santa Monica Pier Carousel. by Editor. September 28, 2017. in Crime, News. On September 12, at about 3:22 p.m.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Our Route 66 road trip began at the end, at the famed fishing pier jutting out into the Pacific Ocean.. On a breezy Sunday afternoon, the first day of June, a steady ...

A controversial project almost destroyed the Santa Monica Pier in the 1970s. ... Charles Looff, who had built Coney Island’s carousel, was hired to take on the project in the mid-1910s.

The Santa Monica Pier officially opened to the public on Sept. 9, 1909, and “quickly evolved into a popular fishing and boating destination,” according to Santa Monica Travel & Tourism.