Pacific Park, the iconic amusement park sat atop Santa Monica Pier, has just been sold off to new owners. The company that runs the park, Santa Monica Amusements LLC, announced its sale Thursday ...

An agreement with Santa Monica Amusements would mean the end of an era for trapeze arts on the Pier, a 17-year relationship that began as Trapeze School New York, rebranded as Santa Monica Trapeze ...

At which beaches are you more likely to get sick? Heal the Bay releases a look at what beaches earned high marks, and which ...

For the second year in a row, the Santa Monica Pier is hosting a rave-like party dubbed PIER PLAY. The event, featuring DJs, ...

Excerpted from "Santa Monica Pier: America’s Last Great Pleasure Pier" by James Harris (Angel City Press, 2024) For more than two decades, James Harris has been the executive director of the ...

The Santa Monica Pier was built to run sewage into the ocean in 1909. The amusement park concept developed in 1916 during the heyday of pleasure piers, which populated coastal towns nationwide.

Thanks to its famous beaches, iconic pier ... exciting new faces that are on their way to winning the hearts of locals. From the opening of the new oceanfront Sandbourne Santa Monica, a design ...

Santa Monica’s iconic Ferris wheel has a new owner. On Thursday, Santa Monica Amusements, the operator of Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier, announced it had been sold to an investment firm ...

SC Holdings, also investors in LeBron James' entertainment company SpringHill, will invest $10 million in the attraction over the next five years. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer Run by managing ...