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NGC7319
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You'll love 'em. The shots of Seal beach are keepers too! I finally got around to scanning those things after 13 looooooong years, Damn I'm lazy these dayz!
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sweetnpinky17
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Was the cafe already gone in those shots?
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NGC7319
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Yes, there used to be a very nice restaurant where the waves are smashing into the end of the pier. I think all together the pier lost about 150' to mother nature. I will try to find a picture of it with the Cafe' still intact. Maybe Cyber Kahuna has a pic he can upload, he probably ate at the Cafe' a few times.
-=Skyman=- See ya in the water!!
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JastinKey
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The folowing is a clip from a website about the Huntington Beach Pier
'In 1930, the city once again decided to modify the pier by extending it another 500 feet out in to the waters off the coast of Huntington Beach. When the new construction was completed the pier was now 1850 feet long and a cafe had been built at the far end. However, there was a problem with the new addition: it was four feet lower than the rest of the pier and not well built. In 1933 an earthquake shook the pier hard enough to separate the new addition for the original portion of the pier. In response the city had the separation paved over.
All seemed fine until 1939 when a rare hurricane made it's appearance in the waters off of California. By the time the storm had left, the new addition and the cafe were resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once again the people of Huntington Beach were forced to reconstruct their world famous pier, but work was fast and the pier reopened in 1940.'
'In March of 1983, Mother Nature once again decided to play havoc with the pier. As hundreds watched, safely from the shore, the storms and surging sea tore the end of the pier off, sending it and the End Cafe to a watery grave.
By the time the 1983 winter storm season was over, plans were already being made to reconstruct the pier. This time, when the pier was completed, there was a new, two story End Cafe overlooking the calm Pacific.
But the calm did not last long. On Janurary 18, 1988, a large winter storm hit the Huntington Beach coast ripping the new portions of the pier from their pilings, destroying the End Cafe and a large section of the pier. Once again part of the pier disappeared beneath the famous surfing waves of Huntington Beach.'
There is now a Rubys restaurant at the end of the pier. you can see it on any surf cam at HB pier.
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hotdogman85
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Huntington Beach sounds like every East and South coast town I've ever been to.
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Terragen
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Sounds like they ought to stop using trailer homes as cafes on that thing.
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Elaine
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Or at least take down the Confederate flags, and hide the cousins with the big hair.
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ETTREK
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Don't get me started on California.
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NGR
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says...
Go ahead, start.
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