Baby Boomers Tribute "Let Me Live Again" Pacific Ocean Park 1958-1967 So Cal Santa Monica
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2013
- Baby Boomers Tribute "Let Me Live Again" Pacific Ocean Park 1958 - 1967 Santa Monica
"POP" as it was soon nicknamed and pronounced, "pee-oh-pee" was a joint venture between CBS and Santa Anita Park. It opened on Saturday, July 28, 1958 with an attendance of 20,000. The next day, the park drew 37,262 which outperformed Disneyland's attendance figure that day. Admission was ninety cents for adults which included access to the park and certain exhibits. The term "POP" was also used as a clever acronym for "Pay One Price", though other rides and attractions were on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Like Disneyland, Pacific Ocean Park found corporate sponsors to share the expense of some exhibits. Six of the pier's original attractions were incorporated into the new park: The Sea Serpent roller coaster, the antique Looff carousel, the Toonerville Fun House, the Glass House, twin diving bells and more.
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This brought back so many memories, my husband proposed to me there in 1960. POP was always very Special to me and especially now since he's passed away!! Good Memories 💖💖
You're loved Judy 💟
Judy Lange sorry for your loss...sounds romantic to get engaged in a place like that....never went there I'm
.afraid of the water those diving bell...forget it the skyride... no way...it would've induced nightmares for days if I had gone there even the pictures make me nervous...
What a great place to get engaged! Fantastic story!
A teen in the late sixties and early seventies. Loved it but was sad when it closed in 1970!
Visited there in 1966 and 1967. The rollercoaster was awesome! I remember the bubble ride over the ocean, mirror maze, carousel and the bathysphere. An episode of Get Smart was filmed there as well as the finale of The Fugitive. Happy memories.
Visited at age 8 in 1963........so good to "see" what I could not remember.
Made many beautiful memories there with friends as a teen in the mid sixties. Went into the army in 1967 (the summer of love), came back in 1970 on a sentimental journey to see my old dear friend only to find her and a special part of my youth burned down in a heap behind a chain link fence. Thanks for the touching tribute.
spent many happy times at POP. Grad of Santa Monica City College in 1963.
POP made me forget about Disneyland when I was a kid. My parents first took my brother and me to POP in 1965. It cost $2.00 to get in and you could ride all rides except the Huge Orange rollercoaster as many times as you wanted. The rollercoaster was 25 cents. We'd stand in line for a half hour then do it again. POP will always remain my favorite amusement park. Great Times!
Very lovely video... brought back fond memories when my family went there often...plus in 1966 my band played at the Battle of the Bands there. Different times. Thx you for posting it.😎🎶🎸
Totally awesome! I practically grew up there. POP was a weekend destination. Thanks for the memories.
I doubt if anyone else could have this memory of P.O.P.: I was about 6 years old living in Sylmar and all summer I was looking forward to the Grand Opening of The Sylmar Swimming Pool just a couple blocks away. That was all I could think of....being there on Opening Day. And so the day finally arrived and I was so excited to go swim at that huge public swimming pool. I think it was sometime in August about 1960. My parents called to me that morning and said that my best friend's mom came across the street and invited to take me along with her family to .... you'll never guess....Pacific Ocean Park. "WHAT? NO FRIGGEN' WAY!!!, I'M GOING TO THE GRAND OPENING OF THE SYLMAR SWIMMING POOL. I DON'T WANT TO GO, I'M NOT INTERESTED". I'M NOT GOING!!!". My dad pulled me aside while I cried and pouted and said that I could go the pool tomorrow but this was a great time I could have today and that....I WAS GOING WHETHER I LIKE IT OR NOT!
You think I enjoyed P.O.P.? Maybe a little but all day I was thinking about the pool. So that's the memory I had of P.O.P. watching this. Amazing how stubborn I was. Great video, and I'm really enjoying the Baby Boomers tributes. Thank you so much. Thought I saw my Chevy Van there on Van Nuys Blvd. in the summer of 1972. My friends and I cruised there most Friday or Saturday nights. What a happening place to simply be a part of.
Great movie of POP, my 1st amusement park. My grandparents lived in Venice and we lived in Culver City. I am born and bred California native and still love it. It truly is my home. Great memories. I am 62 now and never plan on leaving.
me too, born and raised in LA county, left LA but not Cali.,I am 59
Again, another excellent compilation of pictures, video and music!!! You have transported me through a "Time Tunnel" of rememberance.
Thank you again!!!
Thanks for this "Good Ole Days" Tribute!!! SURE MISS UM...Life WAS Great!!!
Before my time but I am glad people who went there enjoyed it, sad that good things always end ....
POP was so fun. Loved the mirror maze, the rollercoaster, the sky ride. Seems surreal now.
I am so blessed to have experienced POP in its hay day. It put Disneyland to shame!
It cost an extra quarter to ride the roller coaster so we'd get our dollars together and ride it 4 times in a row. Favorite ride. Sang there in concerts a few times tool Loved POP, though I'm surprised we survived the drives back and forth through the canyon - doubt any of us were ever licensed!
You did a beautiful job on this video! Thank you!!
Thanks for the memories, a great video. This was my first amusement park. My grandmother used to take my brother and I there three or four times each summer during the late 50s and early 60s. The rollercoaster was our favorite even though it said, "Condemned ride at your own risk."
A fond time age -Love beach area, began my life's journey here and have come full circle now -reflecting on life's many past adventures - thank you for the wonderful memories you've posted. Best wishes, a "California son"
I remember it well!
This is fantastic. Thanks for jogging my memories there. Was a different world.
I remember my parents taking me to pop with my two older sisters early 60s lived in Culver City used to go there like in the weekends
We lived in Santa Monica when I was 5, I'll be 50 next year, and I remember the beautiful carousel clearly. When I was a young mom in the 90's, i took my kids to ride that same carousel when it was relocated to the Burbank Media Center. And I felt nostalgic THEN, lol...
That looks like fun!
I remember the tree house that looked like a big cave with lots of rooms and a slide to get out. That and the bubble ride we liked to call it also known as the skyway. We were afraid it would break and we would fall in the sea. lol
Nice journey. Thanks.
Fantastic
Back around 1959, some friends and I were the first in the park before the crowds gathered. You could buy a ribbon bracelet on certain days, that would allow you access to all the rides, all day, as many times as you wanted. I can still hear the poor guy operating the old wooden roller coaster. I swear, we rode that thing 26 times straight without a break. After about 20 times, the guy said, why don't you kids give it a break, and allow someone else to ride. We informed him, what other people, since no one else was waiting to ride the coaster in the first place. We had him over a barrel. He grinned and? but probably a lot of groveling with quiet threats. We survived, he survived, and if he's still around, i'm sure he used that day in his story telling about the park.
Grew up 2 blocks away, watched POP come and go...
The roller coaster at POP was my very first one ever. The before and after brings back memories. I remember riding my bike down there after POP closed down and seeing that big iron sculpture from the entrance pool laying in ruin against the wall.
great video clip... thanks for the effort
What a fantastic and awesome video! :)
Lovely as always
for about 30 sec...you could see a film clip of an old Bob Culp and Bill Cosby in a scene filmed there...I remember POP...I paid 1.25 to get in and ride it all..Saw Del Shannon "Palasades Park" there...Wink Martindale host. I would take the bus down Wilshire from Burnside...for 25 cents and spend the day at POP and get scared on that diving bell.....it PLUNGED UP HARD AND FAST. Hay Mike...I HAVE THAT PICTURE OF US HERE..
POP in the early 60s my dad would take us there on a regular basis. We lived in east LA and the drive there filled us with so much anticipation. It was so much simple cheap fun
Heart is still broken...but at least it's a happy heart. Never realized until viewing this, that the building in the last shot was a bar!
we moved to CA in 1969 but we came for a visit in 1967 and we went here by the time we moved here for good it was gone
Excellent video, ALAUGHFROMTHEPAST!! You took me back - way back. Great choice of music in this and your other vids. I'm a fan.
Leslie Kelly Thank you for those kind words! : )
This has helped mend my broken heart just a little.. thank you so much for this!
beautiful video
We used to sneak in by crawling under the pier to a hole in the chainlike fence it was scary I forgot that I did that thanks for the memory
Ah yes, the ocean skyway. Scary and exciting all at once for a little 8 year old. Fond memories. Thanks.
The Bee Gees (Brothers Gibb) were a great band, fizzled out and regained popularity at the beginning of the disco era. remember Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta?
This was really outstanding! I made a small donation because these memories are really precious! It was almost like home movies from when I was a kid. Really have enjoyed the other video's too.
Fantastic channel and music, classic So. Cal. nostalgia
Absolutely beautiful presentation. You can see me @4:32!
Where
HERMAN'S HERMITS , had a great time at this park , making the movie HOLD ON.
I had my first- ever date at 13 years old with a boy from my church named Douglas R. Douglas soon threw me over for another girl from the church. My POP adventure lasted a lot longer than my relationship with Douglas. (And was more fun!)
The fire was tragic. P.O.P. deserved better than that. But loved to watch the surfers do the pilings in the mid 70's before they cleared it all away If it is any consolation, Santa Monica land got so expensive it would have been gone by now anyway.
Yup. Like the Santa Monica Pleasure pier, The Pike in Long Beach, and Playland at the beach up in San Francisco. Land got so valuable, and many seaside amusement parks paid the price!!!!!!
Maybe there could still be some recoverable artifacts where POP once stood.😮
saw the wink martindel show there
Several TV shows were film there including Route 66, Season 2 episode 28 “Between hello and goodbye”. Starred my favorite Actress Susan Oliver, trying to commit suicide by jumping from one of the gondolas into the sea. Also the last episode of the Fugitive when Kimble chased the one arm man up the tower, the ride was called the Flying Dolphin (Mahi Mahi). It was a shame how the park ended, wish I had been in CA back then and visited at least once.
Does anyone remember the
Neptune exhibit? A guy in costume under water in a large tank. Also the entrance off Ocean Ave. with the arched buildings still remain today. There were character artists with their easels to paint your portraits. Probably for one dollars. The 60's were great to be a kid......
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Do you know which cross street off Ocean Ave? I MIGHT know where you're talking about, but wanted to be sure.
Edit: Found it. And actually, that's off Pacific and Windward Avenues. On one of those arched buildings there is even a HUGE mural on the side of it that depicts that street in its hayday and you can see the POP pier off in the distance including the Ocean Skyline ride! Wow! I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life, and have gone to Venice Beach NUMEROUS times in a span of 35 years and NEVER noticed that! Wow! The mural is called "Touch of Venice" and can be seen on the side of "The People's Drug Company" on Windward ave! Thanks for sharing!
I remember going to Pop back in the early and late 60s mom dad used to take us there one time we went Saturday night the whole family would your sister I was so excited to be there I tore my sisters brand new dress still reminds me of that estimate went by there early 70s it was a bandit said see that
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Wow, I had no idea this place ever existed! It seems really cool, wish it was still around. This video even made me sad and nostalgic and I wasn't even around then. Heh
back in the 90s I work for the city of Santa Monica the only thing left from pop is a block of cement and you can see in the ocean
How sad.
When we were looking for art for the Sustainable Living Street in SM, we wanted it to incorporate elements for this our history. City staff refused and instead we are getting birds on a stick. There you have it, staff knows better than residents.
That is sad, as that park was a huge park of Santa Monica's history, whats wrong with those brain dead people? Terrible and outrageous staffers
That's ridiculous!
Does anyone have any pictures of Popsie the pink elephant or the holiday show at POP
They had a ride where a car went up, down, and around (can't remember the name) and my cousin threw up on us. But it was still fun. Go figure.
the Bee Gees!
Back again POPGave Disneyland a run for it’s money back in the day
What year was the fire ?
1967
P.O.P. had a hydrofoil you could ride.
who sings this song?
Bee Gees
Come on. The producer couldn't find an appropriate LA band for the soundtrack?
Not necessary to show the ruins. Just show the memories.
Nice video.. 👍👍👍