pier and a few friends were doing it.
Pier Sign.
Pier sign, but nowhere on it does it say "The Santa Monica Pier ."
Pier Committee, gave a beautiful, beautiful speech and part of it he said, and I think that this is really striking statement, "It's like a family.
Pier , the long part that goes out over the ocean -- the original concrete, that was originally made of concrete has always been owned by the city.
pier and um I don't here's the little Spiel on that um today at the original musle Beach you can test your strength
Pier stands was the setting for the final face off between Dr Richard Kimble and the one armed man in 1967 and it was
piers , but the, the diamond in their crown was the La Monica Ballroom.
The Pier , today, hosts four million visitors.
the Pier in a major way was through a vote of the people, not by the city council.
the Pier , I thought, "Wow, is that something left from, from World War II when they were worried about an invasion of Los Angeles."
Other piers had been made of wood and had been, not lasted long against the elements and against the natural, the teredo worms which were eating up the pilot-, the pilings
This is Hyde Street Pier , which I've talked a little bit about already.
benches on the pier .
more about the Pier than at least anyone that I've met. His name's James Harris, or Jim Harris, and he's the Pier historian for the Santa Monica Pier Restoration Corporation.
and so the Pier has, has a long, long history of various locations. He's the historian for the Pier , but he's also a writer, a playwright and his writing credits include the stage
Last Great Pleasure Pier .
ever concrete pier to be built on, built on the West Coast of the United States.
on the piers . So, the city of Santa Monica decided to build a concrete pier .
Monica Municipal Pier as his ideal destination.
the amusement pier operations to a Santa Monica amusement company, a group of Santa Monica businessmen who wanted to build up the Santa Monica Pier as the people's playground.
Santa Monica Pier . So, he went driving by in front of this sign several times, looking for a sign that said, "Santa Monica Pier ."
is on the Pier now.
the Newcomb Pier , the Enid Newcomb Pier was going to expire anyway and she was, her orders were to tear down her part of the Pier at the end of that, that lease.
The Municipal Pier , of course, I just said was in a serious state of disrepair, still owned by the city. Perry Scott thought to replace both, since the Newcomb Pier was gonna
what the Pier could become if they would, if the City would just draw, draw their attention more towards it.
But they saved the Pier and in 1975, the Pier was declared a landmark, was given landmark status and declared that the only way that anything could happen to tear down or alter
role in the Pier 's history and, and Robert Redford actually, his first memory is of being four years old when he came to ride the carousel.
at the Pier and has met her really has gotten a kick out of, out of Colleen and we've seen a lot more of Joan lately, which has been great.
on the Pier , and there have been a lot of, like I said, other colorful characters on the Pier .
to the Pier , but not on the Pier deck. When I first started on the Pier , in 1989, the, there was talk of rebuilding
across the entire Pier , and people still today, you know, when they come to the Pier , they, they say this place used to smell like homemade potato chips.
of the Pier .
The board goes under the pier , so he swims under the pier to go get it.
They've just restored an old pier down by the wharf that is 300,000 square feet and will be net zero energy.
And then got to the pier and decided to get out of the water and saw an old fishermen, named Steve, who I knew.
There's like a piece of decrepit pier .
It's right on the pier near Vancouver, right near the Westin.
So we left from Santa Monica Pier , which is the end of Route 66.
down by the Santa Monica Pier .
He's been a fixture on the Pier since 1989, and his first job on the Pier was tending bar at a little dive called The Boathouse Restaurant, which is where Bubba Gump is today,
ran back to my office at the Pier and I said, "I found the best place in Santa Monica to work."
and declared the Santa Monica Municipal Pier as the best fishing spot in all of Santa Monica Bay.
turn to go down to the Pier . So, the Santa Monica Pier Businessmen's Association gathered, pooled up their money and they had this sign erected in 1941.
out off at the end of the Pier ever since the 1920s. Very much a fixture on the Pier , he, he passed away in 1951, and I never thought I'd be able to come across any of his relatives,
bring his own carousel from the Venice Pier .
He owned a carousel on the Venice Pier . The carousel on the Santa Monica Pier , the Looff carousel had been gone for a few years and this carousel was a much nicer carousel than
If they've been to the Pier before or if it's their first time to the Pier , it's just a very popular attraction.
one-third the surface of the Pier , including the entire west end, and you can see almost all the way to the beach.
this picture that really identify Santa Monica Pier today?