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  • Thumbnail for Santa Monica Pier
    Santa Monica Pier is a large pier at the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California, United States. It contains a small amusement park, concession...
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    The Steel Pier is a 1,000-foot-long (300 m) amusement park built on a pier of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, across from the Hard Rock Hotel...
    14 KB (1,425 words) - 19:42, 23 April 2024
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    Morey’s Piers & Beachfront Waterparks is a seaside amusement park located on The Wildwoods' boardwalk in Wildwood and North Wildwood, New Jersey. The park...
    22 KB (1,900 words) - 18:34, 2 April 2024
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    Kinney family rebuilt their amusement pier quickly to compete with Ocean Park's Pickering Pleasure Pier and the new Sunset Pier. When it opened it had two...
    72 KB (7,171 words) - 15:33, 11 May 2024
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    restaurant. Texas portal 2012 in amusement parks Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier. "Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier". Facebook. Retrieved January...
    9 KB (566 words) - 07:42, 11 September 2022
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    changing the pier's character from seaside entertainment to an amusement park, with various fairground rides and roller coasters. The pier remains popular...
    25 KB (2,520 words) - 18:24, 8 May 2024
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    Clarence Pier is an amusement pier in Portsmouth, Hampshire. It is located next to Southsea Hoverport. Unlike most seaside piers in the UK, the pier does...
    34 KB (1,504 words) - 01:08, 28 May 2024
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    Whelan Boardwalk Hall. Two other piers, an amusement pier named Steeplechase Pier and a Heinz 57-owned pier named Heinz Pier were destroyed in the 1944 Great...
    40 KB (4,499 words) - 05:34, 28 May 2024
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    of the Ocean Park amusement piers. In the 1930s, Crystal Pier stood north of the Ocean Park Pier and south of the Santa Monica Pier. Ingersoll, Luther...
    3 KB (213 words) - 16:01, 22 May 2024
  • Hunt's Pier was an amusement pier located along the Wildwood, New Jersey, boardwalk from 1957 through 1985. Over its nearly 30 years in operation, Hunt's...
    8 KB (965 words) - 04:10, 24 December 2023
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    Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome (category Amusement rides introduced in 1916)
    were part of Looff's new amusement park "Pleasure Pier," on a short, wide pier adjacent to the long, narrow Santa Monica Pier. When the war ended (WWII)...
    9 KB (710 words) - 00:03, 9 February 2024
  • The Manly Fun Pier (or Manly Amusement Pier) was a small amusement park located on a wharf in Manly, New South Wales, Australia. It was in operation from...
    4 KB (328 words) - 16:25, 24 March 2024
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    Gillian's Wonderland Pier is a historic amusement park founded in 1929 by David Gillian, who first came to Ocean City in 1914. It is located near the beginning...
    27 KB (2,126 words) - 22:44, 24 March 2024
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    disappeared with the construction of Palace Pier complex. The name for the Palace Pier complex comes from an amusement pier, which was located on the site of the...
    8 KB (936 words) - 08:54, 12 May 2024
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    The 1924 Ocean Park fire destroyed several amusement piers and dance halls at Ocean Park, Los Angeles County, California, United States. The fire of Sunday...
    6 KB (305 words) - 06:26, 26 May 2024
  • According to the National Amusement Park Historical Association, there are approximately 1,000 defunct amusement parks in North America, with a significant...
    112 KB (1,474 words) - 19:07, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carolina Beach Pier
    The Carolina Beach Pier is a pleasure, fishing, and amusement pier located in the town of Carolina Beach, North Carolina, between the Cape Fear River...
    5 KB (481 words) - 23:04, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jolly Roger Amusement Park
    Jolly Roger Amusement Park is an amusement park located in Ocean City, Maryland. The park features two locations in Ocean City: one at the pier on the Ocean...
    5 KB (571 words) - 13:40, 16 October 2023
  • The Pike (redirect from Rainbow Pier)
    water. The Pike operated under several names. The amusement zone surrounding the Pike, Silver Spray Pier, was included along with additional parking in the...
    45 KB (5,684 words) - 20:22, 14 April 2024
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    Entrepreneurs erected amusement parks on piers that extended from the boardwalk out over the ocean. The first of several was the Ocean Pier in 1891, followed...
    63 KB (7,297 words) - 11:04, 28 May 2024
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