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Ocean Beach is the site of a historic single-screen movie house, the Strand Theater, which opened in November 1925. In the late 1970s, the Strand survived with midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Friday and Saturday nights. By the early 1980s it was running pornographic films.
Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Coordinates: 37°45′34″N 122°30′39″W. Cliff House from Ocean Beach. Aerial view of the Ocean Beach neighborhood at Taraval Street. Ocean Beach is a beach on the west coast of San Francisco, California, United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. It is adjacent to Golden Gate Park, the Richmond District, and ...
Glass Beach. / 39.45361°N 123.81306°W / 39.45361; -123.81306. Glass Beach is a beach adjacent to MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California, named from a time when it was abundant with sea glass created from years of dumping garbage into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town. [1]
Playland (San Francisco) / 37.77333°N 122.51194°W / 37.77333; -122.51194. Playland (also known as Playland-at-the-Beach and Whitney's Playland, beginning in 1928 [1] – some say 1926 [2]) was a 10-acre (40,000-square-meter) seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach, in the Richmond District at the western edge of San ...
Sunset Cliffs, San Diego. Coordinates: 32°43′47.02″N 117°15′09.21″W. A swimming beach at the base of the Sunset Cliffs. Sunset over the Pacific Ocean, as seen from Sunset Cliffs. Sunset Cliffs is an affluent coastal community in the Point Loma community of San Diego, California. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, Ocean ...
Santa Barbara County. Butterfly Beach, Santa Barbara, California. Rancho Guadalupe Dunes County Park. Point Sal State Beach. Surf Beach. Jalama Beach County Park. Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve. Hollister Ranch.
Total length. 1,954 feet (596 m) History. Opening date. 1888. Coordinates. 33°11′30″N 117°23′20″W / 33.191672°N 117.388852°W / 33.191672; -117.388852. The Oceanside Pier, located in Oceanside, in northern San Diego County, California, is the longest wooden pier on the western United States coastline at 1,954 feet (596 m).
Monstrous waves along the California coast took onlookers by surprise Thursday. Waves as high as 20 feet "crashed over seawalls and swept away and injured several people, forced rescues and sent a ...