Crystal Pier

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Crystal Pier stood off the shore of Santa Monica, California, United States from 1905 to 1949. Opened as the White Star Pier in July 1905,[1] it later went by other names at various times including Hollister Pier, Bristol Pier, and Nat Goodwin Pier.[2] Located at the end of Hollister Avenue, along what is now Will Rogers State Beach,[3] Crystal Pier was the smallest of the Ocean Park amusement piers.[4] In the 1930s, Crystal Pier stood north of the Ocean Park Pier and south of the Santa Monica Pier.[5]

Cafe Nat Goodwin in 1915, named for its owner, the vaudevillian and film actor Nat Goodwin, on what was then called Bristol Pier

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  1. ^ Ingersoll, Luther A. (1908). Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County, 1542-1908; supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography. University of California Libraries. Los Angeles: L. A. Ingersoll. p. 232.
  2. ^ Venice Beach, 1915, retrieved 2024-05-08
  3. ^ Klein, Jake (2003). Then & Now: Santa Monica. Gibbs Smith. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-58685-230-6.
  4. ^ Gorman, Mark (2022-09-16). "Nat Goodwin's Café Bristol Pier". The Street Seen. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
  5. ^ Verge, Arthur C. (2007). Santa Monica Lifeguards. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-4698-8.

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