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Ocean Park Branch library, an original Carnegie library, July 2009. In December 1916, the commissioners of Santa Monica selected the site for the Ocean Park branch Carnegie library at 2601 Main Street. [2] The library was funded by a $12,500 grant from the Carnegie Corporation. The library was opened to the public on February 15, 1918.
The Ocean Park Historic Buildings are a group of four religious community structures in the center of the Ocean Park area of Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Also known as Temple Square, they form the heart of the summer camp meeting established in 1881. The buildings include The Temple, one of the only octagonal church buildings in the state.
Parque Barbosa, also known as Ultimo Trolley (Last Tram) is the home of the Ocean Park Marlins Futbol Club, a football team with categories from 5-year-old kids to "Superior" (semi-professional) both for female and male footballers. Último Trolley got its name because it was the last electric streetcar that crossed the streets of San Juan from ...
Pacific Ocean Park was a 28-acre (11-hectare) nautical-themed amusement park built on a pier at Pier Avenue in the Ocean Park section of Santa Monica, California in 1958. Intended to compete with Disneyland , it replaced Ocean Park Pier (1926–1956).
[1] [2] The Ocean Park pier was developed by Alexander H. Fraser, who had once been partners with Kinney, the developer of neighboring Venice, California. [3] [4] Fraser was born in New Brunswick and had come, by way of Michigan, to California in 1886. [5] Alexander Rosborough Fraser (1856–1923)
Ocean Park was once a station on the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, a narrow gauge railroad that ran along the Long Beach Peninsula from 1889 to 1930. [5] One of the oldest buildings in Pacific County is the Taylor Hotel building, built in 1887, currently in use as Adelaide's Cafe and Bookstore named after Adelaide Taylor, [6] the wife of the original hotel owner.
Ocean County wants you to identify the most dangerous streets on an online interactive map. You can anonymously place pins, draw lines and write comments about why certain roads or intersections ...
The Dome Pier proper opened on Saturday, June 3, 1922. [1] The Dome Pier measured 1,500 feet (460 m) by 263 feet (80 m). [2] The week of the pier's opening, it also was announced that the Dome Pier, Fraser's Ocean Park Pier, and Pickering's Pleasure Pier had been connected together into an amusement park that developers claimed was the biggest entertainment pier in the world. [3]