Archinect - News2024-04-27T09:30:30-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/105336559/the-rise-and-spectacular-fall-of-venice-beach-s-pacific-ocean-park
The rise and spectacular fall of Venice Beach's Pacific Ocean Park Alexander Walter2014-07-29T17:45:00-04:00>2014-07-29T17:49:09-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8f/8f5c93d6a6e4b88e5b33069fc400e8b2?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>If you had walked along the beach in Venice in the early 1970s, you would have come across the sagging, crumbling, partially incinerated ghost of an old amusement park on a pier. [...]
But when it opened in July 1958, more than half a century ago, Pacific Ocean Park — or P.O.P., as it came to be known — was the thing: an amusement park that married Venice Beach's kitschy seaside carnival culture with the space-age Modern architecture of the late 1950s.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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