Field Trip to Santa Monica Pier. It’s been a few years since I’ve been on the pier, and it looks like they’re doing some maintenance. Not surprising, the pier is over 100 years old (opening day was 9-9-1909), and it has undergone repairs more than once. Santa Monica beach is the first beach I remember going to and I’ve gotten to seen some of...
I remember coming to Griffith Park as a kid for weekend pic-nics with my family. Going for a pony ride and riding the wooden horses of the Merry-Go-Round. Sadly, these horses have seen better days. The Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round was built in 1926 by the Spillman Engineering Company (horses carved by Charles I.D. Looff), and was once-upon-a-time, located in Mission Beach, San Diego. The...
These things are a huge draw for tourist…I’ve seen the queues waiting to take the short ride. I suppose it’s something you should do while you’re there at least once. There’s a Cable Car Museum that I plan to visit sometime. Maybe I’ll take a cable car to the museum…two birds! Iconic Cable Car on Powell Street, San Francisco, California. San Francisco’s first successful...
Quick shot of the Palace of Fine Arts on the May 2013 full moon. Wish I’d been able to get the moon in the shot. San Francisco, California. Originally constructed to be temporary, as part of the Pananma-Pacific Exposition (1915), Beaux-Arts. It was demolished in 1967 and rebuilt to be a permanent structure. Architects: William Gladstone Merchant; Bernard...
Long Beach, California. Is the Queen Mary haunted? Well, I will say it’s creepy especially after midnight. We’ve stayed on the QM twice and have gone exploring late in the evening to see if we could “see something”. Just for the record, if I did see something I’d have a heart attack. The creepy factor is increased by the fact that there seems to...
