Santa Monica Pier – End of the Road

If Route 66 begins in Chicago, Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles is where it ends 2,448 miles west as measured along the original highway. The initial terminus is actually in downtown Los Angeles, but the pier has glam.

Executive Director and official Pier historian James Harris took me on a tour one typically busy day, from the 1916 Loof Hippodrome with its third generation carrousel to the mural at the end of 'America's last great pleasure pier.'

Santa Monica Pier Rote 66 End of the Trail sign.

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An overall video view of the pier.

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"Let me take just one more" souvenir photo on the Hippodrome carrousel.

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You'll find a mural of the past at the end of the pier.

James Harris's book SANTA MONICA PIER is a complete history of the promenade.