Happy Days and Sunshine - a brief history of the Santa Monica Pier from 1992

This documentary was produced in 1992 by the Santa Monica Pier Restoration Corporation and provides a brief history of the Pier with historical photos and video. The film was created prior to the construction and opening of Pacific Park and provides context to the Pier's historical significance as 'the last great pleasure pier' in California as well as sets the stage for the next chapter in the Pier's path to becoming the world-class entertainment destination it is today.
Narrated by Edward Asner
Written & Produced by Peggy Clifford
Directed by Paul Feldman
Original Music by Jimmy Hammer

[@lettermines]

I visited Santa Monica hundreds of times when I lived in California between 1999 and 2013...and I wondered what kind of people were fortunate enough to live in such a fantastic place... Now I am back in my home country, South Korea, but still reminisce the years I walked and had good time there as well as people who I hung out there with.

[@KellyMcEntee-bp9no]

My father was a surfer born in '46 and he said that pier was a whole lotta fun

[@theemaygoogleme151]

My mother talked about going there during WW2 to see big bands. A lot of my family members went to California to work in the defense factories during the war and a couple of them stayed after. Sadly that generation is nearly gone and what they fought to rid the world of has now come to America and found an audience.

[@lettermines]

I read your comment carefully and felt somehow heart broken... Your precious family members were almost gone with their generation and the values they fought to defend. I live in my home country , South Korea and feel pretty much the same way when I see what my parent generation have fought for seem to have become in vain. I lived in California and visited Santa Monica many times between 1999 and 2012, and had great time there. Here in my home country, South Korea I miss and reminisce Santa Monica and people there...

[@cosmicsunbeams]

There were Two different piers in this clip. The narrator doesn't realize. Ocean Park Pier, and Santa Monica Pier. It's confusing I know.😊 But great footage still!

[@user-ky3pc2zd7e]

man, those days on the pier are way far gone

[@lettermines]

Is the year in title supposed to be 1892 not 1992?

[@gregorygarcia7807]

Born 1960 @ UCLA. 41 years then gone

[@TVTruther]

awesome.. the days before wokeism and the 60s were so good

[@jessicarabbit7629]

I remember the merry-go-round that place is haunted

[@lettermines]

Really? Was the merry go round in Santa Monica beach haunted? Can you tell more detail?

[@marcosadame4166]

i got busted there for taking a stuff teddy bear for a girl in 1978 stupid high on dust never did that again