From the late 50’s until the late 60’s, if you wanted music, dancing and amusement rides, you could go to Pacific Ocean Park on the beach between Venice and Santa Monica. A new book tells about its ...

History will POP for the next week at the Santa Monica History Museum as the organization hosts several events focused on Pacific Ocean Park. The park was the original Santa Monica amusement park ...

Here’s a little story for summertime, a tale of two seaside amusement parks of days of olde: One eventually got itself a reputation as a rackety, unsavory hangout where you didn’t have to look hard to ...

Walk along the Santa Monica shoreline today and you’ll see an unbroken expanse of sand stretching in one golden ribbon from the Santa Monica Pier down to the Venice Pier about three miles to its south ...

"Pacific Park has always been about fun, families, and the unexpected," said Nathan Smithson, Senior Director of Business Affairs at Pacific Park. "From a clown on a jet ski to a haunting nod to local ...