Archinect - News 2024-12-22T22:14:55-05:00 https://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 Walter 2014-07-29T17:45:00-04:00 >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 &mdash; or P.O.P., as it came to be known &mdash; 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"> <html><head><meta></head></html>