Amusement Piers in the Santa Monica Bay

Swingin’ at the Steel Pier LP cover
 

Most of these are about Pacific Ocean Park.

Movie: Night Tide at NWR (Santa Monica Pier)

Photos: Remembering Pacific Ocean Park

Movie segement: Pacific Ocean Park scene from Herman’s Hermits 1966 comedy movie “Hold On!”

TV segment: Lost Los Angeles “The Invaders” Pacific Ocean Park 1968 Classic Television

10 photos from L.A.’s long-gone Pacific Ocean Park, a day out by the sea you’ll never enjoy

Presentation: Throwback Thursdays – Pacific Ocean Park Pier / Presented by Christopher Merritt & Domenic Priore

Music video: Nancy Sinatra Who Will Buy

Vintage documentary: Part 1 – Santa Monica and Pacific Ocean Park (1959)

Home movies: Baby Boomers Tribute “Let Me Live Again” Pacific Ocean Park 1958-1967 So Cal Santa Monica

Ronnie Jay and Friends – P.O.P. Pier mid 1970s

 

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Four Abandoned SoCal Amusement Parks With Creepy Pasts

Enchanted Village

Links for 7/24/20

Your Favorite Rock ‘n’ Roll, Country and R&B Legends as Marionettes


 

Summers could become ‘too hot for humans’


 

Earth’s final frontier: the global race to map the entire ocean floor


 

From LAX to Frank Sinatra’s house, Paul R. Williams’ architecture defined mid-century California


 

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature, John Hubley

 https://youtu.be/PWn6-4HWSJg


 

For decades, scientists puzzled over the plastic ‘missing’ from our oceans – but now it’s been found


 

Arizona national monument, home to sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up for the border wall


 

Temperatures at a Florida-Size Glacier in Antarctica Alarm Scientists


 

Federal disaster relief is being wasted on NC beaches


 

Honolulu Hawaii Episode 1

Links for 2/14/20

Hop Podcast #14 Collecting Skateboards With Andrew Maunsell


 

Globalizing the War on Indigenous People: Bolsonaro and Modi


 

The Toxic Tide


 

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LA’s Vintage Diners, Then And Now


 

Trust our expertise or face catastrophe, Amazon peoples warn on environment


 

How to Fall Down the Anti-SJW Rabbit Hole


 

Vintage Skateboard 1960’s Collection Rare Grails Museum Quality


 

The best conservationists made our environment and can save it


 

Welcome to Hawaii’s ‘plastic beach’, one of the world’s dirtiest places


 

A Youth Without a Future? – Australian Teenage Life in 1949 – Flashbak


 

First human ancestors to leave Africa died out in Java, scientists say


 

This Small Group of Women Master Blenders Are Reviving the Rum Industry


 

Surfing – Devon (1968)


 

Spider Jazz


 

Crystal, October 2019 – Ben “Dicko” Dickens somewhere in Oz

Links for 6/7/19

Scarborough Bay: 1905


 

A Brief History of the Acoustic Guitar


 

Protect Our Ocean


 

Portable Wind Turbine charger that allows you to charge your devices in nature


 

‘Gas Is a Loser and It’s Time to Move On’: Report Debunks Myth That Natural Gas Can Help Fight Climate Crisis


 

Billy Childish Man In The Mouth of A Cave Exhibition Prints


 

UN chief concerned nuclear ‘coffin’ leaking in Pacific


 

Los Angeles, Sunset Strip, 1965-1969

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Vintage Hawaii 8mm ’69 pt 3

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGTnhQBuLk

Links for 6/2/19

Retro wheels: Fiat 500 Jolly Icon-e by Garage Italia


 

Tiki-style, Hawaiian dress was the all the talk in the 1960s


 

How were vinyl records made in the 1950s?


 

What to Know About JFK’s Wild 1960s Bar-Packed Hotel, Opening Today


 

The Inverted World Map – Variations on a Blue Marble


 

A man spear fishing at night in Hawaii, 1940s


 

The zero-waste revolution: how a new wave of shops could end excess packaging


 

Complex societies gave birth to big gods, not the other way around: study


 

Hans Hass – Unternehmen Xarifa