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Pleasure Pier from Park, Santa Monica, California

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Identifier	clloy_008
Title	Pleasure Pier from Park, Santa Monica, California
Creator	Unknown
Date Published	1922
Subject (Topic)	Parks--California--Santa Monica; Piers--California--Santa Monica; Amusement parks--California--Santa Monica;
Subject (Place)	Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica, Calif.); Palisades Park (Santa Monica, 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	Western Publishing & Novelty Co.; Theo. Sohmer
Place of Publication	Los Angeles, Cal.
Language	eng
Description	Looking southwest towards the Santa Monica Pier from Palisades Park. The Hippodrome Building with its domed cupola can be seen just to the right of the center of the view.
Historical Background	Palisades Park runs along the west side of Ocean Boulevard and overlooks Santa Monica Bay. The park is bounded on the south side by the Santa Monica Pier and ends at the Santa Monica Canyon. The area between Montana and Colorado Avenue was originally known as Linda Vista Park, and was donated to the city by Arcadia Bandini de Baker and Santa Monica's founding father, Senator John P. Jones. The portion of the park from Montana Avenue to the canyon was donated by the Santa Monica Land and Water Company (which was also owned by Baker and Jones)" The Santa Monica Municipal Pier was built in the early 1900s. Charles Looff , known for his career building amusement park rides at Coney Island at other locations across America, built an adjoining Pleasure Pier next to the Municipal Pier around 1916. The completed pier was 178,200 square feet and included restaurants, a carousel, a roller coaster and other attractions. The Hippodrome Building housed the carousel. Looff later sold the pier and in 1924 the Santa Monica Pleasure Pier Company purchased it and expanded it. The two adjoined piers later became known as simply, "The Pier" and were acquired by the city in the 1950s. The Pier was declared a Santa Monica City Landmark in 1976.
Publisher's Identifier	Publisher's serial number: A91657; Series number: S.M. 5
Additional Notes	Printed using the C.T. Photochrom process.
Source	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection