Upgrade the engagement by having the Pacific Wheel light up with a special “Marry Me” animation. Two of Santa Monica’s most iconic hotel properties are hoping to make engagement season a little more epic for couples in 2020. Hotel Casa del Mar and Shutters on the Beach are offering an all-new “The Sky’s the Limit” engagement package throughout engagement season, […]
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National Geographic held an “Assignment Inspiration” photography contest this past summer on Instagram. We caught up with Beth Mancuso, one of the three finalists from the contest, whose pictures from the Santa Monica Pier helped get her in one of the top three spots of the contest. We asked Beth about her background in photography, experience with the contest, and […]
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Get your racing kart ready to zoom around the Santa Monica Pier in Mario Kart Tour. Mario Kart fans rejoice! With the latest Los Angeles course in Mario Kart Tour, you can now race down the Santa Monica Pier and the surrounding beaches. If you look closely, you’ll notice the historic Hippodrome building and iconic Pacific Wheel Ferris wheel visible […]
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Local westside resident worked with Pacific Park to create a wedding proposal on the face of the Pacific Wheel. On Wednesday, June 15th, visitors to the Santa Monica Beach looked up to see 40ft-high letters scrolling across the face of the Pacific Wheel: it asked “Marry me, Katia?” The eye-catching message even caught the attention of KCAL 9 News weather […]
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Right now, if you want to visit a theme park, your options are supremely limited. But after you’ve watched all of the roller coaster POV videos and walked around your favorite parks on Google Maps, there’s not much more you can do in order to scratch the theme park itch. This got us thinking about fictional theme parks that have […]
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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 have served as the background […]
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The Santa Monica History Museum recently had a special exhibit that showed the history of the Santa Monica Pier. The exhibit, titled “Santa Monica Pleasure Pier: A Look Back to 1917 from Today“, ran from November 5, 2019 to February 22, 2020. It was a visual exploration of the history of the infamous Pier by Michael Murphy and Jens Lucking […]
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