- Title
- Palisades Park, Santa Monica, California
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- Description
- Two people are seated in the grass behind a bench in Palisades Park with large palm trees overhead. The view looks southwest towards the Santa Monica pier and out onto the Pacific Ocean.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Parks--California--Santa Monica; Piers--California--Santa Monica;
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- Note
- Palisades Park runs along the west side of Ocean Boulevard and overlooks Santa Monica Bay. The park is bounded on the north side by the Santa Monica Pier and ends at the Santa Monica Canyon. The area between Montana and Colorado avenues 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 (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.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Palisades Park (Santa Monica, Calif.); Santa Monica (Calif.); Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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