Redondo Beach Pier
by Jamie Frier
Title
Redondo Beach Pier
Artist
Jamie Frier
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
By the time Redondo Beach celebrated its centennial in 1992, the city’s coastline had seen at least seven piers. In 1889 the pier was a wharf at the foot of Emerald Street, designed to handle the enormous lumber trade from the Pacific Northwest.Two additional wharfs were added in 1895 and 1903. Traffic into the port was so busy that ships had to wait their turn for a spot at one of the piers, as Santa Fe rail cars transported the cargo inland as fast as possible.
In 1970, a second pier known as the “Sportfishing Pier” opened south of Portofino Way and remains in use today. The wooden “Horseshoe Pier” was built after demolition of the Endless/Pleasure Pier. In 1988, the Horseshoe Pier was severely battered by two winter storms, and destroyed by a fire. Between 1988-1995, the southern Y-shaped remnant of the Horseshoe pier that survived the fire, remained open to the public. Completed in 1995, the current seventh generation restored pier is made of reinforced concrete, incorporating design elements that reflect upon the earlier structures.
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