34.0229° N 118.4819° W
Santa Monica
The pier opened in 1909. North of Montana, the Gillis Canyon edge, and walk-to-the-sand condos off Ocean Avenue.
History
How Santa Monica came to be.
- 1769
The Portolá expedition camps at the Kuruvungna springs, near today's Barrington and Ohio Avenues.
- 1875
Senator John P. Jones and Robert Baker found the town and connect it to Los Angeles by rail.
- 1909
The Santa Monica Pier opens, followed in 1916 by the Looff Hippodrome carousel building.
- 1922
Donald Douglas builds his aircraft plant at Clover Field; by 1943 it employs 44,000 people.
- 2016
The Expo Line reaches downtown Santa Monica, returning rail service to the beach for the first time since 1953.
Points of interest
Places that define Santa Monica
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Fun facts
Things even locals forget
Beach volleyball grew up here.
The modern two-person game took shape on Santa Monica's sand in the 1920s.
Route 66 ends on the pier.
The End of the Trail sign marks the western end of the Mother Road.
A band named for a park.
Linkin Park took its name from Santa Monica's Lincoln Park.
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