This is one of my favorite photographs that I took of the famed Long Beach Pike Amusement Park in the spring of 1980. It was shortly before I graduated from high school and my dad, brother and I took a drive down there to take some pictures. The park had recently been closed down and it was all but deserted. The building with the cone-shaped roof with the cupola at the top of it was the Looff's Lite-A-Line. This roof was the only thing that was saved from the original Pike buildings and has sat in a vacant lot on the land where The Pike entertainment center now stands for several years.
The word came down this week from the city's Historic Preservation Officer Jan Ostashay. The Looff’s Lite-a-Line roof will be outta here by the end of 2007. They still say that the cupola at the very top will be used for a kiosk–one dedicated to historic preservation–at Pacific Avenue and Ocean Boulevard.
You can see the other photos we took that day at
http://207.45.186.130/~vstapf/pike01.html
1 comments:
Wow, I had no idea that the carousel building was still around after all these years! I've never been to the pike myself but I'm familiar with it via old postcards and pics I've seen online.
One of my earliest blog entries was about a dummy in the Laff-in-the-Dark ride that turned out to be a real dead guy... and what that ride had in common with a Disneyland attraction...
http://tailotherat.blogspot.com/2006/11/tail-o-dead-guys-at-amusement-parks.html
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