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Walk along the Santa Monica shoreline today and you’ll see an unbroken expanse of sand stretching in one golden ribbon from the Santa Monica Pier down to the Venice Pier about three miles to its south. It’s almost difficult to imagine that, in living memory, Pacific Ocean Park (POP) occupied 87 acres of that span, […]
