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Santa
Monica is a city in western Los
Angeles County, California, USA.
Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is
surrounded on three sides by the
city of Los Angeles - Pacific
Palisades on the northwest,
Brentwood on the north, West Los
Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista
on the east, and Venice on the
southeast.
The Census Bureau 2008 population
estimate for Santa Monica is 87,664.
Santa Monica is named for Saint
Monica of Hippo because the area on
which the city is now located was
first visited by Spaniards on her
feast day. In the skateboard and
surfing communities, Santa Monica's
Ocean Park neighborhood (and the
neighboring section of Venice) is
referred to as Dogtown.
Because of its agreeable climate,
Santa Monica had become a famed
resort town by the early 20th
century. The city has experienced a
boom since the late 1980s through
the revitalization of its downtown
core with significant job growth and
increased tourism.
he
Santa Monica Hippodrome (carousel)
is a National Historic Landmark. It
sits on the Santa Monica Pier, which
was built in 1909. The La Monica
Ballroom on the pier was once the
largest ballroom in the US, and the
source for many New Year's Eve
national network broadcasts. The
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was an
important music venue for several
decades and hosted the Academy
Awards in the 1960s. McCabe's Guitar
Shop is still a leading acoustic
performance space, as well as retail
outlet. Bergamot Station is a
city-owned art gallery compound that
includes the Santa Monica Museum of
Art. The city is also home to the
Santa Monica Heritage Museum.
Santa
Monica is the home of the Third
Street Promenade, a major outdoor
pedestrian-oriented shopping
district that stretches for three
blocks between Wilshire Blvd. and
Broadway (not the same Broadway in
downtown and south Los Angeles).
Third Street has been closed for
those three blocks and converted to
a pedestrians-only stretch to allow
people to congregate, shop and enjoy
street performers. Santa Monica
Place, the indoor mall designed by
Frank Gehry, is located just to the
south. It's been closed for
redevelopment, and is expected to
reopen in spring 2010 as a modern
shopping-entertainment complex with
more outdoor space.
Santa
Monica hosts the annual Santa Monica
Film Festival.
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