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 ...

The project was originally known as Queensway Bay, but the new name, and the site itself, carry historical significance in Long Beach. The Pike was a sprawling seaside amusement zone and billed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The superstructure lines of a newly constructed pedestrian bridge rising to 87 ft above Shoreline Drive in Long Beach ... of the old neighboring Pike amusement park from 1930-68.

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.