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If you’ve ever spent a day or evening out at Pacific Park, you’ve likely ridden on the iconic Pacific Wheel. Once you get to the top of the Wheel and look out at the coastline, it’s easy to become so overwhelmed that you can only hold your breath in awe and hope the moment lasts […]
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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 […]
As the LA Dodgers go to the World Series, Los Angeles rallies behind the home team. Pacific Park programmed their world-famous Ferris wheel to shine blue and display the message, “Go Dodgers”. The special light program created for the Dodgers’ World Series run also featured an animated baseball, World Series pennant, and the Dodger’s iconic […]
There is an unlikely connection between Ferris wheels and the annual Valentine’s Dayholiday that most people don’t know about. Cupid’s holiday happens to also fall on the birthday of the man who invented the Ferris Wheel, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. He was born on February 14th, 1859, and debuted the first ever Ferris Wheel […]