Pacific Park Papers

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The Santa Monica Pier is one of the most-filmed locations in Los Angeles and has starred in hundreds of movies, music videos, commercials, and TV shows. The Pier offers storytellers a unique landscape with sweeping ocean views, wide, sandy beaches, plus an amusement park and classic boardwalk midway. Pacific Park’s bright blue and pink walls […]

The holiday season is just around the corner, which means that shopping season has already begun. While online sales have continued to rise, in-store shopping is still where the real deals are. Santa Monica offers some of the best shopping in the country, with the 3rd Street Promenade at the center of the action. People […]

Come to the Santa Monica Pier and imagine you’re flying over the ocean when you take a lesson at the New York Trapeze School. History of the Trapeze School on the Santa Monica Pier Trapeze School New York (TSNY) was founded in December 2001 by three people who were inspired by the power of flying […]

For the last several years, Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier has programmed its state-of-the-art lighting package on the Ferris wheel with a brilliant 60-second count down to the New Year. The entire Ferris wheel becomes one giant clock with numerals counting down 130 feet above the Pacific. The lights of the Ferris wheel […]