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POP friday

Pacific Ocean Park; it was called "POP" for short, but not for long! (I stole that line from Ralph Story, thank you Ralph!) Please check out the first two installments of POP photos here and here.

Today's first photo is a complete mystery to me. I can find no record of a ride like this at POP, and yet it is with a group of POP images. It's basically a version of Disneyland's Motor Boat Cruise, only it's kind of cool the way the little boats skim along the surface. My readers are good looking AND smart, so I know that somebody out there will solve this mystery. If meddling kids are involved, so much the better.


"Where the deuce is everybody?", wonders this lad (yes, he sounds just like Stewie). I guess we can see why POP didn't survive for very long, you could literally fire a cannon up this part of Fisherman's Cove and not worry about hitting anybody. You can definitely see that the architecture lacked the charm and detail that were present at that other park.


Here we are outside the Westinghouse building, graced by the statue of the Pied Piper (I guess?) with his balloon pants. Inside, you'll see the Enchanted Forest: "Jack and Jill are our guides as they show us a world of wonders with a Dream House and tomorrow's Atomic City and a reproduction of the 'Nautilus', the world's first nuclear submarine with its Westinghouse atomic engine". You'd also get to see Electro, the robot (and very big star) of the Westinghouse exhibit from the 1939 New York World's Fair!

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