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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The plastic we use unthinkingly every day is killing our planet – and slowly but surely killing us


 

Wandrè – L’artista della chitarra elettrica


 

Short Series Co. Ft Dylan Cox__long Version


 

The Roots Of Ska: From Tennessee, Through Jamaica To The Best of British


 

The Big Green Lie


 

Chongolio


 

Transforming Vintage Cars to Electric


 

Permalink Hank B. Marvin interview – July 23, 2019 (NAMM.org – Oral Histories series)


 

Water


 

High on a Cool Wave (1968)


 

Brilliant Corners: Papua New Guinea, Chapter One

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

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Domenic Priore — ’66 Sunset Strip (11.25.19)


 

Keep On Pushin’


 

Hank Marvin


 

CO2 emissions on the web


 

Jan and Dean Sidewalk Surfin’


 

Scientists find evidence of ‘ghost population’ of ancient humans


 

Musicians Can and Should Organize to Improve Their Pay and Working Conditions


 

Europe’s marine sanctuaries are no more than ‘paper parks’


 

Apologies for bringing scary news, but here’s the latest on Greenland’s melting ice


 

Rising sea levels pose threat to homes of 300m people – study


 

Meet California’s Nerds of Neon


 

Just Being Outside Can Improve Your Psychological Health, and Maybe Your Physical Health Too


 

You Can’t Save the Planet by Yourself


 

‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’: The Ongoing Saga of Pop’s Most Contentious Song


 

Shred Sista, one wave with the works


 

A podcast about Bobby “Boris” Pickett of Monster Mash fame
Late One Night

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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