Heya friends, I spent the summer of 2025 recharging my creative batteries, and working on side projects. One of which was to continue the podcast series featuring the missus. This podcast is designed for Disney fans, amusement park visitors, and history buffs. You’ll learn the roots of the multi-billion dollar theme park industry from ancient history all the way to today. The missus, and I worked hard putting these episodes together through 2024, until we had a family emergency and had to stop working on it for 7 months. We are back on it through 2026. Click on the picture or link to visit our streaming page hosted on Jim Hill Media. I hope you get a chance to listen, subscribe, and leave a review so we can climb the theme park podcast rankings!
The Pink Monorail Podcast Manufacturing the Magic Ep 23: Looking Back at Pacific Ocean Park
In the 23rd installment of this educational series, Shelly & Noe Valladolid head down to the water. To be specific, Santa Monica, California.
Where CBS tried to get in the theme park business by radically
reimagining a 30-year-old amusement pier.
Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about:
- What was the original name of the first amusement pier in this location?
- What nearby amusement park did Abbott Kinney build?
- What was the first attraction on “The Million Dollar Pier?”
- Who narrated POP’s 1958 guidebook, and made an appearance in the Park?
- What were the only two rides added to POP?
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