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Candy Carousel

Overview The Candy Carousel popcorn and candy cart on the Santa Monica Pier is a treat cart where you can buy chocolate bars, cotton candy, fresh-popped kettle corn and other sweets. This vintage popcorn cart is lined top and bottom with various and well-known candies, bagged chips and Mexican chicharrones. Candy Carousel also serves up [...]

Films and TV Shows Filmed at the Santa Monica Pier in California

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 […]

Shopping Santa Monica This Holiday Season

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 […]

The New York Trapeze School on the Santa Monica Pier

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 […]