- Title
- Pleasure Pier, Santa Monica, California
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- Description
- Looking southwest towards the Santa Monica pier; a sign on the Hippodrome building reads: "Welcome," and a sign on the building to the right of the Hippodrome reads: "Bowling and billiards." To the left of the Hippodrome building is the Aeroscope ride, and there is a partial view of a roller coaster.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Piers--California--Santa Monica; Amusement rides--California--Santa Monica
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- Note
- 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. A building with a domed roof and octagon-shaped towers, known as the Hippodrome Building, housed the carousel. The Aeroscope ride to the west of the Hippodrome building was a tower ride that launched six-passenger boats into the air and whirled them around at 35 miles per hour. In 1924, Looff sold the pier to the Santa Monica Pleasure Pier Company, who expanded it to include the La Monica Ballroom towards the ocean end of the pier. The two adjoined piers later became known as simply, "The Pier," and was acquired by the city in the 1950s. The Pier was declared a Santa Monica City Landmark in 1976.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Santa Monica (Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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