Skip to main content

Search

Advanced Search

Find results with:

Add another field

Search by date

Search by date:
from:
to
to:

Searching collections:

Changing Face of Southern California

Add or remove collections

Home

Changing Face of Southern California

The Palisades and Bay, Santa Monica, California

Reference URL

Share

To link to this object, paste this link in email, IM or document
To embed this object, paste this HTML in website

The Palisades and Bay, Santa Monica, California

View Description

Loading content ...

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

...

Back to top

Powered by CONTENTdm®

Identifier	clloy_001
Title	The Palisades and Bay, Santa Monica, California
Creator	Unknown
Date Published	1913-1920
Subject (Topic)	Bays--California--Santa Monica; Beaches--California--Santa Monica; Roads--California--Santa Monica; Wharves--California--Santa Monica;
Subject (Name)	Long Wharf (Santa Monica Bay, Calif.);
Subject (Place)	Santa Monica Bay (Calif.); Pacific Palisades (Calif.);
Type	image
Form/Genre	Postcards
Physical Description	1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	public domain
Copyright Statement	https://library.lmu.edu/policies&procedures/librarycopyrightpolicy/
Publisher	Pacific Novelty Co.
Place of Publication	San Francisco, California
Language	eng
Description	A view of the Santa Monica Bay, looking north towards the Palisades and bay from the California Incline, with mountains in the distance. What looks to be half of the remaining Long Wharf extends into the bay.
Historical Background	Built in 1903, the open air incline was once a dusty unpaved road called "The Sunset Trail" and was originally the only way to get from the bluffs to the pier below. The California Incline was later paved, with the entrance at the far west end of California Avenue, linking Ocean Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway." Santa Monica Bay was originally the site of the Long Wharf, briefly known as the Port of Los Angeles, located around 2 miles north of Santa Monica city proper at Portero Canyon. For a short while, Santa Monica was a competitor for the location of the primary deep water seaport for the city of Los Angeles. However, in 1897 a Congressional decision was made favoring San Pedro as the major port for Los Angeles, and the Long Wharf eventually lost the shipping trade. In 1913, Pacific Electric contracted to have the outer 1600 feet of the Long Wharf dismantled, reducing it to around half of its original size. The remaining portion of the pier was removed by December of 1920.
Publisher's Identifier	Publisher's serial number: F157
Source	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection