Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. It was 1976. Crew members from the TV show The Six Million ...

The Lite-a-Line is the last operating attraction of Long Beach’s storied Pike, the grandest coastal amusement park of its day. The Pike had been demolished by the mid-1970s -- except for the ...

“Long Beach was really the vacation spot for much of America,” said Carl Winston, an amusement park historian at San Diego State University. Much of the Pike was reduced to rubble in the Long ...

Origins: In December 1976 a Universal Studios camera crew arrived at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California, to film an episode of the television action show, the Six Million Dollar Man.

The Ferris wheel at the Pike center in Long Beach will be closed for a short ... in 2005 to symbolize the once-thriving waterfront amusement park that packed the shoreline area for decades in ...

An iconic tattoo parlor is the only surviving establishment from the long-extinct Pike, a leftover relic ... as well as for the famous amusement park that once surrounded her shop.

The most famous part of Long Beach is the land around Rainbow Harbor, known to locals as The Pike, which is a waterfront area with an amusement park, shopping and restaurants. Shoreline Village is ...