Decades later, more amusement park rides began to open on the Santa Monica Pier, and in 1940, its famous neon welcome sign was constructed. General views of the Santa Monica Pier on June 24, 2021 ...

There was once a time when visitors to the Santa Monica Pier would either walk or drive down the hill from the corner of Ocean Avenue and Colorado Avenue and then walk or drive up onto the Pier.

Since the Santa Monica Pier reopened in June 2020 after a COVID-19-related shutdown, the number of vendors illegally selling there has “quadrupled,” Negrete ... Sign up for Essential California.

There’s a lot going on at the Santa Monica Pier, so here are some tips for best times to go, ... and the famous Route 66 sign situated about halfway along the Pier. ...

Vintage Pier postcard circa 1910 Santa Monica held a grand celebration, and immediately the Pier--whose purpose was to send trash and sewage out to sea, mind you--became associated with recreation.

Picturing Santa Monica without the Pier is like picturing the Hollywood Hills without the Hollywood Sign or New York without the Empire State Building, but with all the changes that have happened ...

Santa Monica Pier may not be the most relaxing place, certainly, but it’s a start. The mere sight of the summer sea is like a sloppy kiss on the neck. In two weeks, this sun-baked pier turns 100 ...

The pier features restaurants, snacks, souvenirs, strolling preachers and performers, as does Santa Monica’s nearby, more gentrified, 3 rd Street Promenade. I noticed the pier and its surrounds ...