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Wow, what a great film, I noticed that the majority of the cabs are Desotos, and I see a couple of Cadillacs and a Packard. The theme park is a real trip, with the speed boats and the motorcycle drome. Thanx for sharing this awesome flick!
The main reason for non-Ford taxi cabs is cabbies earned their living with them so they prefered dependable over Fix Or Repair Daily.
Roadster pickup was slick! The first Car looked like maybe a 33/4 cabriolet? I’d have to take a second look
As I remember it, DeSotos had a model that was specifically made for use as a taxi. Limousine chassis, with jump seats but not luxurious. Fords and Chevies were too small to use as taxis.
I think the first one was a used car that crunched a fender so they took it off. # 2 was definitely a Hot Rod. could still be in a garage there somewhere. about 15 years ago a couple guys found a 36 Ford sedan in San Francisco that have been under a leak in the roof for 40 or 50 years. it was all rotted to hell.
Hello, Most of us that are still around from the way back time machine. We were not around when the Ocean Park Pier was first put in, where the later 1960s POP amusement park took over. Through misfortunes, the pier lasted and then got destroyed. But, the remnants of the old Ocean Park Pier (in the film) was showcased. A crowd has gathered to watch riders take the High Boy, a large wooden roller coaster at Ocean Park Pier. When the original Park Pier place was trashed, a new place called P.O.P. or Pacific Ocean Park took over. This new design and amusement park was what most thought was going to be the Disneyland of the ocean shoreline. Well for a year or so, it was. It attracted a lot of people from all over. But, Metropolis Los Angeles sent tons of people to the oceanfront amusement park in the early days. For some reason, it became a sore eye to a lot of people. It became less used and very abandoned. It kept up a mighty front, but it turned into a slightly creepy Pacific Ocean Park in Santa Monica. “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). After it closed and fell into disrepair, the park and pier anchored the Dogtown Area of Santa Monica.” We went there as teenagers several times and once in 1966 with my wife, (then girlfriend )POP closed in 1967 a year later. The main thing was that it did look like an "up-version" of the Long Beach Pike. But, that portion of the coastline just happened to get the brunt of any movement from the ocean to the West and North. Consequently, it meant daily/nightly thick fog and salt moisture. Our jackets, shirts and even the cotton chinos/Levis felt wet from the moisture in the air. Long hair? Just like a recent shower… Everyone looked like they ran through a light shower spray. That was not the most enjoyable thing for us, but the next time the amusement park was brought up, the answer was a definite no. Knotts Berry Farm, Disneyland and even the stand by, the Long Beach Pike had a more attractive environment. Jnaki The end of Route 66 is at the Santa Monica Pier. It has always been an icon of beach piers. One of the only few in California that cars are allowed to drive out and park/cruise. Santa Monica Pier end of Route 66 in the foreground and the POP Park Pier area to the South on the shoreline. Green with envy... The roadster pickup brought back a memory from the old Friday Art days and one that has been sitting for a little while, getting ready for a different post. Happy Holidays…
Pacific Ocean Park was like the Pike's little brother. Our second date was at POP. We saw the Beach Boys there, for free, before they cut their first record. Loved the Dodgem Cars!!
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