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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Greg and Mom at Pacific Ocean Park, CA, 1958


Pacific Ocean Park (POP) amusement pier in Santa Monica tried to match Disneyland, though it fell a bit short all the way around. Mom was no longer living with the two woman after she moved out (Ann believes they had an apartment in Downey rather than Pasadena). She was living in an apartment somewhere else. I remember the older apartment building very well but not where it was. Georgann was not there that weekend that mom had custody. Given that POP opened in July 28, 1958, I suspect she took me there soon after it opened.

The top photograph is me in one of the Ocean Skyway bubbles. Passengers headed out over the water, turned around at the end of the pier and returned to the station on the land.

Use the following link to see vintage photographs of the park and rides:

http://www.westland.net/venicehistory/mapsdocs/poppier-map.htm


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