It was a fun place!

I loved it there, miss that place so much!

I'm glad you enjoyed the video. So many places like this that don't exist anymore.

I'll have to look for that plaque the next time I am at the Santa Monica Pier

The parking lot was about 200 yards south of the SM pier and was connected by a asphalt path. Under a couple of trees and near some bushes in the turn-around was the plaque. I don't know if the plaque or the parking lot is still there as it seems things are always changing around there. I also found a coffee table book at Barnes & Noble several years ago about the POP. It called "Pacific Ocean Park, The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles' Space-Age Nautical Pleasure Park by Christopher Merritt and Domenic Priore and a forward by Brian Wilson, 2014. It contains some great photos and stories from its inception until its demise. It's pretty neat. I grew up and still live in SoCal and have seen a lot of our old iconic landmarks torn down and replaced by generic garbage. Really sad!

@@AllanGonnella Thanks for the info. I still live in SoCal, but am located about 40 miles south of Santa Monica/Venice in Huntington Beach. I usually only make it up that way when one of my friends passes away. I've seen a copy of that coffee table POP book, very well done.

I read where there is a plaque on the sidewalk of Sunset Blvd. marking where Dino's (Dean Martin) Restaurant was giving the exact address and explaining the car port valet area and the small office building next door was used for the outdoor shots for the TV series "77 Sunset Strip. All the other shots of the valet parking area and inside the office building were all shot at Warner Brothers studio. The next time I'm over on Sunset Ill have to get out and check it out. I think the only two places left on Sunset from my cruising days in the late 60's-early 70's are The Whiskey and The Roxy Theater. Now everything are high rise condos, apartments and office building and a Starbucks on every other corner. Too bad!

@@AllanGonnella Interesting! I remember when I was a kid in the mid 60's my parents used to watch "77 Sunset Strip, but I was too young to understand it. I have a lot of memories of concerts at the Whiskey and the Roxy. I'm 66 years old.

Thanks, it was a great place!

I agree 100%

It was a great place, I loved it there as a kid! I was 6 in 1964.

Yes it was! Glad I could share amall slice of it!

Thank you for the compliment!

This one turned out good! Love you my girl!

Thank you! It was a beautiful day at Yosemite!

You are welcome, glad you enjoyed the video!

Great experiences we had back then. Just trying to share them all.

@@Rogerland99 . granted, few such memories have the film / other ephemera to back them up any more--and they continue to recede into the past. My parents were into the Kodak Instamatics, but countless paper prints and trays full of "slides" have followed each other into various nether-lands and dark underworlds of their own. Yet, a stimulus such as your video is sufficient to draw up some refreshing buckets from "the memory well"! God bless you for prompting their remembrance--the remembrance of real things...

Thanks!

I did, and I tried my best to get it to line up!

I agree and thank you for commenting! Yes, a nice little time capsule!

I used to camp at Three Rivers, lots of great memories!

I loved the Runman trilogy! Thanks for the feedback!

There is a short scene of me skating with with my cast on my left wrist, see about 3;24

It's an effect of stabilizing during post processing. Thanks for watching and your feedback.

Merry Christmas Julie!

I am very interested in other theories, and to compare them to mine. So looking forward to hearing your theory once it has been completed.

Nope, I was 6 in 1964, and was the one filmng in 1975. I broke my worst skateboarding, in 1975 so I filmed since I couldn't be out there.

I honestly don't know

In always loved going there, as well we went there pretty much every year from 64 to 67. This was the only year my dad brought the camera though. Great memories!

I did edit out a lion tamer scene from this video, which showed a lion tamer wrestling with a lion in a small cage. Feared that YT might ban the video if I showed it. I might make another version with the lion tamer scene in it, or a separate version with just the lion tamer scene.. If my memory is correct, I recall the King Neptune room you reference was at or near the entrance to the park.. Thanks for watching and providing your feedback!

I have some more 8mm footage out getting digitized, so look for some more vintage SoCal videos in the future!

Yes, great memories and fun times!

Thanks Julie! I'm going to be dumping out more videos on various topics! I had to drive to AZ to do this, can't launch rockets legally anywhere in SoCal.

@@Rogerland99 sounds fun.. I like blowing stuff up 😜

@@9-1-1-OPERATOR Me too! That is why I got into Aerospace, and still work in Propulsion (although I am retiring in a month) People used to tease me when I left work, and say things like "What did you blow up today Roger?" !!!!!!!

@@Rogerland99 🤣🤣 and happy retirement 😀