BY SPECIAL REQUEST: REMEMBERING PACIFIC OCEAN PARK, AN ATOMIC AGE SWEET SPOT IN SANTA MONICA

Yes it's that time of year...when thoughts turn to the amusement parks of yesteryear....AND SO....

Today we look at another---this one a nautical themed number from Santa Monica--The Pacific Ocean Park--(click on the photo)--And now, courtesy of ULTRASWANK....POP was a fantastic mid-century amusement park rivaling Disneyland, Pacific Ocean Park that only existed for nine years; But it existed at the right place at the right time – that atomic age sweet spot of 1958-1967. Read more at: http://www.ultraswank.net/readable/pacific-ocean-park-lost-to-time/

AND IN CASE YOU MISSED IT---SOMETHING A LITTLE CLOSER TO HOME---PALISADES PARK!  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/07/remembering-palisades-amusement-park.html