View of Pacific Ocean Park under construction from the west end of Ocean Park Pier
1 media/IMG0015_thumbnail.jpg 2021-10-11T10:17:54-07:00 Curtis Fletcher 3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673e 39590 3When Pacific Ocean Park (POP) opened in 1958, the nautical-themed amusement park rivaled Disneyland in popularity. Over the next several years, POP attracted millions of visitors and was a favorite for television show locations. Forty years after its demolition, POP continues to evoke the heyday of beachside family fun.
This photograph illustrates the built environment with construction workers before it became one of Southern California's most popular attractions. While images of Pacific Ocean Park abound, a lesser known story is its construction. The photo of the Park under construction (and built on the site of the old Ocean Park Pier) gives us a sense of the scale of the work.
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- 1 2021-10-14T10:03:55-07:00 Curtis Fletcher 3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673e Landmark Sites Curtis Fletcher 6 Although Los Angeles is ever-evolving and shifting the world around it, sites, landmarks, photos and postcards remind us of what the city used to be. Sometimes they are all that remain. Whether a site was once a bee ranch, a homestead, sanitorium, or the Port of Los Angeles, the places shared here set the stage for the eventual growth, change, and expansion documenting the passage of time. Before the Santa Monica Pier was developed, Angelenos enjoyed the seaside at Pacific Ocean Park, built to rival Disneyland. After falling into disrepair, it was demolished. Generations of Angelenos traversed the iconic Sixth Street Bridge linking separate parts of the city. Once a major engineering feat but now demolished due to structural weaknesses, we can still see it on screen in movies and TV shows. The LA region was a military outpost long before it was a metropolis, as seen in the remains of Fort Drum from the Civil War era and Fort Moore from the Mexican-American War. And the old Pueblo de Los Angeles reminds us of the many people who have called this city home - Native American communities, Mexican peoples and Spanish colonial settlers. Despite the renewal and change inherent in the region, there is also room for remembering and honoring the past. structured_gallery 2021-10-22T11:26:08-07:00 Curtis Fletcher 3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673e
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- 1 2021-10-18T16:05:18-07:00 Curtis Fletcher 3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673e Santa Monica Public Library Curtis Fletcher 3 The Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives contain historical photographs, postcards, and slides documenting the city's changing landscape and architecture as well as the commercial enterprises that shaped the development of the City of Santa Monica. The Archives include surrounding areas such as Pacific Palisades, Venice and Malibu among others. As early as 1875, Santa Monica's beaches attracted visitors from other areas, making tourism and transportation key local industries. The Archives include many images of resort hotels, bathhouses, amusement piers, the Long Wharf (intended Port of Los Angeles), Southern Pacific Railroad, and Douglas Aircraft, along with bearchgoers, shopkeepers, classes of schoolchildren, founding families, Spanish land grant holders, and other historically significant people. All of the Archives' images are available in digitized format on the web from the Library's digital collection site, Imagine Santa Monica, http://digital.smpl.org. The Library has the Santa Monica Outlook newspaper (1875- 1998) available on microfilm at the Main Library. Early years of the Outlook (1875-1920) are also available from the Imagine Santa Monica site. The Library's staff has selectively indexed and annotated articles published in the newspaper between 1950 and 1998. Since the demise of the Outlook, the Library's staff has indexed the local information published in the weekly "Our Times" section of the Los Angeles Times and is currently indexing the Santa Monica Mirror. Both are also available on microfilm. The newspaper indexes are available online from Imagine Santa Monica, http://digital.smpl.org. structured_gallery 2021-10-19T11:23:20-07:00 Curtis Fletcher 3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673e