Long Beach Pike

[wolfie]

Don't know how many of you guys remember the Pike in Long Beach. Some of these old picture reminded me of this.

 

[Wheeler]

Went there as a child, also visited POP.

I found some pictures, I think the man in the last picture is a Catholic Priest! :champagne:

 

[wolfie]

There's some really good pics on this website. Wouldn't let me copy them (rat bastards)!!!

http://www.millikanalumni.com/Pike/PikeHistory.html

 

[TPC]

We rode the Cyclone on it's last day.
It was terrific.
When you entered the "tunnel" to the entrance line, there were millions of lights, the smell of the salt air and creosote.

It was fantastic.

Money was allotted to build a similar one some years ago, permits pulled,, all set and damfino what ever became of that project.

 

[wolfie]

We use to go down there and have a hot dog or some other shitty food the night before fishing trips when my dad ran a charter boat many moons ago.

 

[Wheeler]

There's some really good pics on this website. Wouldn't let me copy them (rat bastards)!!!

http://www.millikanalumni.com/Pike/PikeHistory.html

Are these the pic's?

 

[wolfie]

Went there as a child, also visited POP.

I found some pictures, I think the man in the last picture is a Catholic Priest! :champagne:

Couldn't be a priest. His hands aren't on the kids ass.

 

[wolfie]

Are these the pic's?

Yeah, that's some of them...It wouldn't let me do anything with them.

 

[Wheeler]

Yeah, that's some of them...It wouldn't let me do anything with them.

I'll sell 'em to you, how many more you want?

 

[wolfie]

I'll sell 'em to you, how many more you want?

None...I can copy them off here now!!!!!

 

[BajaMike]

Went there as a child, also visited POP.

POP (Pacific Ocean Park) was in Santa Monica, by the pier.


:hmm

 

[Skyskier]

We use to go down there and have a hot dog or some other shitty food the night before fishing trips when my dad ran a charter boat many moons ago.

Ask your Dad about the old "spit & lie" club at the "Rainbow Pier"
http://theoldphotocompany.com/root/theoldphotocompany/iphoto/main2.cfm

 

[XtrmWakeborder]

My office is right up the street in the Wells Fargo building, and the pike is THE place to go eat. Sad thing is, they tried to fix it all up, but there isn't much else to do but eat.

I heard they tried to turn the Queen Mary into a casino, but Long Beach shut that idea down. I think that would have brought the city more dollars, and business to the Pike, but oh well.

 

[Skyskier]

My office is right up the street in the Wells Fargo building, and the pike is THE place to go eat. Sad thing is, they tried to fix it all up, but there isn't much else to do but eat.

I heard they tried to turn the Queen Mary into a casino, but Long Beach shut that idea down. I think that would have brought the city more dollars, and business to the Pike, but oh well.

They used to have a "floating casino" off the shores of Southern California :thumbsup seemed to work pretty good, back then
Off shore gambling in California 1928.............. - River Dave's Place

 

[coz]

Got my tats at the Pike :thumbsup

 

[wolfie]

Ask your Dad about the old "spit & lie" club at the "Rainbow Pier"
http://theoldphotocompany.com/root/theoldphotocompany/iphoto/main2.cfm

Wish I could...he died about 8 years ago.

 

[EarpRider]

"Spit an Argue"

 

[Skyskier]

Wish I could...he died about 8 years ago.

Well then, I'll tell ya about it Back when I was a wee lad me & a bunch of my pals would ride our bicycles down to the Pike from Paramount, about 12 maybe 15 miles each way. They had a "park bench" area at the end of what was Rainbow Pier. There was a bunch of old guy's ( bout my age now ) that went down there everyday & played checkers, dominoes and p-knucle (sp) and fished. They'd be sitting around drinking outta paper bags :hmm and they seemed to "spit" a lot :hmm

Anyways,................wouldn't take long for one of 'em to break into some wild tale about how he "invented" the 1st steam train, the 1st street car, the 1st airplane, or how they used to run bootleg whiskey into "the city " etc., etc,......and then it was "ON", the next guy would tell a "bigger" story than the last guy an so on & so on I remember one guy tellin me about him & his brother riding horses from their home in Gardena to the beach an such, an I also remember him telling us to enjoy our day's as "youngsters" cause SOMEDAY we'd all be old like him & his pals I told HIM, "no way we were gonna stay young forever ....................................................................................

I'm STILL tryin to figure where we went wrong

 

[Skyskier]

"Spit an Argue"

good find :thumbsup That IS the one & only one

 

[Skyskier]

"Spit an Argue"

my granpa Fitzgerald took me down there a couple times to go fishing, this was like 1951 / '52 .....

 

[Havazoo]

Anyone get a tattoo there