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The Third Street Promenade is a pedestrian mall esplanade, shopping, dining and entertainment complex in the downtown area of Santa Monica, California which originally opened as the Santa Monica Mall on November 8, 1965. It is considered a premier shopping and dining district on the Westside and draws crowds from all over the Greater Los Angeles area. Due to easy access to Downtown Los Angeles via the Big Blue Bus rapid transit service, E Line's terminus station and the Pacific Coast Highway-Santa Monica Freeway Interstate, the neighborhood's north-south thoroughfares connecting to Muscle Beach, Venice Canal Historic District, Marina del Rey, Ballona Wetlands and Los Angeles International Airport, and its proximity to historic U.S. Route 66, Santa Monica Pier, Palisades Park, Tongva Park, Santa Monica State Beach and the Pacific Ocean coupled with Los Angeles's mild Mediterranean climate, it is also a popular tourist destination.
Third Street has been a center of business in Santa Monica since the town's inception in the late 19th century. The Promenade's roots date back to November 8, 1965 when three blocks of Third Street were converted into a pedestrian mall. Although successful, by the late 1970s, the Santa Monica Mall (as it was then called), was in need of modernization and a redesign. A new enclosed shopping center, Santa Monica Place (1980–2007), designed by Frank Gehry was added at the Promenade's southern end. A citywide bond measure was issued and architectural firm ROMA Design Group was hired to redesign Santa Monica Mall. The renamed Third Street Promenade opened on September 16, 1989. The project was part of a larger redevelopment effort, encompassing several blocks of Downtown Santa Monica. Santa Monica Place has since been renovated into a new open-air shopping and dining venue that re-opened on August 6, 2010.
The Third Street Promenade and Downtown Santa Monica are overseen by Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. (formerly Bayside District Corporation), a private non-profit 501(c)(3) that works with the City of Santa Monica to manage services and operations in Downtown Santa Monica that promote economic stability, growth and community life within Downtown Santa Monica.
A central feature of the Third Street Promenade are the public art topiary sculptures and fountains The Dinosaurs of Santa Monica by the French team Les Lalanne. Located along three blocks of the Third Street Promenade, the dinosaur topiaries "spew" streams of water from their mouths.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The Third Street Promenade is a pedestrian mall esplanade, shopping, dining and entertainment complex in the downtown area of Santa Monica, California which originally opened as the Santa Monica Mall on November 8, 1965. It is considered a premier shopping and dining district on the Westside and draws crowds from all over the Greater Los Angeles area. Due to easy access to Downtown Los Angeles via the Big Blue Bus rapid transit service, E Line's terminus station and the Pacific Coast Highway-Santa Monica Freeway Interstate, the neighborhood's north-south thoroughfares connecting to Muscle Beach, Venice Canal Historic District, Marina del Rey, Ballona Wetlands and Los Angeles International Airport, and its proximity to historic U.S. Route 66, Santa Monica Pier, Palisades Park, Tongva Park, Santa Monica State Beach and the Pacific Ocean coupled with Los Angeles's mild Mediterranean climate, it is also a popular tourist destination.
Third Street has been a center of business in Santa Monica since the town's inception in the late 19th century. The Promenade's roots date back to November 8, 1965 when three blocks of Third Street were converted into a pedestrian mall. Although successful, by the late 1970s, the Santa Monica Mall (as it was then called), was in need of modernization and a redesign. A new enclosed shopping center, Santa Monica Place (1980–2007), designed by Frank Gehry was added at the Promenade's southern end. A citywide bond measure was issued and architectural firm ROMA Design Group was hired to redesign Santa Monica Mall. The renamed Third Street Promenade opened on September 16, 1989. The project was part of a larger redevelopment effort, encompassing several blocks of Downtown Santa Monica. Santa Monica Place has since been renovated into a new open-air shopping and dining venue that re-opened on August 6, 2010.
The Third Street Promenade and Downtown Santa Monica are overseen by Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. (formerly Bayside District Corporation), a private non-profit 501(c)(3) that works with the City of Santa Monica to manage services and operations in Downtown Santa Monica that promote economic stability, growth and community life within Downtown Santa Monica.
A central feature of the Third Street Promenade are the public art topiary sculptures and fountains The Dinosaurs of Santa Monica by the French team Les Lalanne. Located along three blocks of the Third Street Promenade, the dinosaur topiaries "spew" streams of water from their mouths.
Peter Ehrlich, 1993, Third Street Promenade, Downtown, Santa Monica, California, USA, sculpture. Photo 2 of 2.
National Donut Day celebration courtesy of Santa Monica Salvation Army; German Visitors (Munich) enjoying a donut on 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, California
Proverbs 16:24
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Here is one more from Veronica's photo shoot.
I think I was a little tired when I edited this one, maybe I added a bit too much fantasy glow look to it...
true story, this is why I will never go back to santa monica "mall" again!
I got chased out of this place by security because I was walking around taking photo of their ~ *drum roll* ~ landscaping pots and plants. santa monica "place" what "place"? it is a fucking mall without a roof, so that qualifies you to be elitist?
"sir no photography allowed, you can't take photographs here sir". I argued the entire mall is filled with shoppers and tourists taking selfies, some with selfie sticks. I didn't intrude on any individual or invade on the shop owners. the security said taking photo with a dslr (mine was a film camera) with a zoom lens (35mm is a wide angle lens) is not allowed on the property and this is a "private property". cellphone selfies are ok (because people can do free marketing for you on social media????) bullshit, all of it!
I don't blame the security, they were just doing what they were told by their idiot management. just a suggestion- put giant signs of "no photography allowed" all over the mall instead of the secret service tactic. you know the "not allowed" slash sign with a camera in the middle of the circle, yes put those all over place to let guest know about your house rules.
so, I left and this photo with balls on it will be my very last time being next to the mall. the parking structure is expansive and the traffic is a clusterfuck, not to mention how superficial they've became over the years. "no photography allowed"- are you shitting me? at the crossings of a million tourists, no photography allowed? fuck you!
nikon em, 35/2, expired fuji superia xtra 400.
Saw this lady sitting on the bench and thought it would be a good photo. Santa Monica - 3rd St. Promenade
Somewhere on the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California. Best seen on black.
This shot is completely Photoshop from the original HDR right down to my name in the corner, so it marks a milestone for me: the first image I've ever posted here using only Photoshop for processing.
I'm finally figuring out and getting comfortable with PS. It's quite different from GIMP and it's taken a while to get into the different way Adobe think and structure their image processing workflow and tool. I'm really getting to enjoy it!
This image is a good example of what you can do with CS5. These shots are dark and high ISO. When I processed them in Photomatix it came out a horrible mess of hot pixels and just couldn’t be recovered. To be fair, Photomatix has been a great HDR tool and my version I bought two years ago so for software it’s absolutely ancient. I don’t know how the current version of Photomatix would have handled this. PS did a great job getting rid of all the hot pixels without my needing to do anything. It also had an option to remove ghosting which you get when people or items move between HDR shots. My version of Photomatix can only reduce ghosting. The CS5 remove ghost worked brilliantly. The people were originally heavily ghosted here, and PS removed all that with a simply click. Really impressive!
Hot As Hell Beachwear & Lingerie Launch Party in Santa Monica with models Alexandria Rousset & Brittany Rafuson
One of the few indelible instances I remember as a young mod on the 3rd Street Promenade in 1985—seeing a young skinhead playing stickball with a friend of his.
Digital manipulation of camera phone image. Photo taken at 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica California. Louis Lionheart educating the public to the truth about Islam
Vintage postcard from 3rd Street Promenade (date unknown). Man that place has changed over the years. I remember when I first went there in about 1989 and it was a sleepy little outdoor promenade with a metal topiary of a dinosaur where the fountain is in this picture and a nice old five and dime on the corner. It sure changed by the time I left in 2001 (into a generic boring outdoor mall). I haven't been since but I bet it's almost unrecognizable now.
I loved the art bookstore and the African store the most back then, and it was always nice to hang out at the British pub and have some "chips" and shepherd's pie.