The Long Wharf in Santa Monica, also known as '"Port Los Angeles"' or the '"Mile Long Pier"', was an extensive pierwharf constructed by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in Santa Monica Bay from 1892-1894. When it opened in 1894, it was the longest wharf in the world, measuring approximately 4,700 feet. It served as a cargo and passenger port until 1913, and in 1919 removal of the wharf started. The wharf, the 1000 foot tip of the pier, was removed by 1920. The remaining 3,600 feet of pier reaming was used as a run down fishing pier until 1933, when remainder of the pier was removed. One of the major imports to the wharf was lumber from Northern ports, to help in the construction boom in Southern California. Southern Pacific Railroad and the street cars of the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad served the wharf. Los Angeles Pacific Railroad ran passenger trams to the wharf and from midnight to sunrise ran cargo cars.
Long Wharf (built 1710-1721) is a historic pier in Boston, Massachusetts which once extended from State Street nearly a half-mile into Boston Harbor. Today, the much-shortened wharf (due to landfill on the city end) functions as a dock for passenger ferries and sightseeing boats.
History
18th century
Construction of the wharf began around 1710. As originally built the wharf extended from the shoreline adjacent to Faneuil Hall and was one-third of a mile long, thrusting considerably farther than other wharves into deep water and thus allowing larger ships to tie up and unload directly to new warehouses and stores. "Constructed by Captain Oliver Noyes, it was lined with warehouses and served as the focus of Boston's great harbor." Over time the water areas surrounding the landward end of the wharf were reclaimed, including the areas now occupied by Quincy Market and the Customs House.
"At the wharf's head in the 18th century was the Bunch-of-Grapes Tavern. The painter John Singleton Copley spent his childhood on the wharf, where his mother had a tobacco shop." The 1760s Gardiner Building, once home to John Hancock's counting house and now a restaurant, is the wharf's oldest surviving structure.
The plan called for new pedestrian walkways and retail spaces intended to get more tourists out to the wharf and increase parking and rental revenues, which was expected to support operations and maintenance in the long term.
As a series of winter storms slammed California’s coast with powerful rip currents and towering waves, part of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed on Monday, plunging two contractors and a city employee into the water.
Ed GreenOakland Mother Nature willdictate wharf’s future ... “Official says repair of obliterated wharf will likely be long process” (Page A1, Dec ... The SantaCruz Wharf, a century-old symbol of coastal charm, faces an undeniable reality.
The report showed a total of 54 crashes in the study area between 2018 and 2022, with most occurring at the intersections of Route 1 and Long Wharf Drive, Wilcox Road, Cove Road, and Montauk Avenue... ....
City records show a successful environmental lawsuit from local residents to block repairs and upgrades to the over 100-year-old, half-mile long pier may have been the deciding factor in the wharf’s collapse.
People shop during the antique show on Saturday, Oct ... at 13 Kennedy St., Pittston, on Nov. 23 ... 11, 1918 ... When the Long Store Building was built in 1847 at 71 S ... in Pittston it was 30 feet wide and 150 feet long, running from Main Street to Wharf Street.
SANTA CRUZ — Engineers continued to assess the structural integrity of the Santa Cruz Wharf on Tuesday, a day after white-capped waves ripped a section of the 110-year-old wharf into Monterey Bay... “Most likely, that will be a long process,” he added.
According to the report, for far too long there are no police nor judicial authorities have intervened at Wharf J�r�mie, leaving the crimes that violated the international humanitarian law by gang members largely unpunished.
...Cruz wharf ... The historic wharf at Santa Cruz was built during WWI and was about half a mile long - the longest of any wooden wharf in the Western hemisphere, according to the city's parks department.
In Santa Cruz, a municipal wharf under construction partially collapsed and fell into the ocean around 12.45 p.m., taking three people with it ...Farmers' Almanac says this winter will be a long, wet, whirlwind of rapid-fire storms.
But the recent signing of the long-term lease solidifies the details and makes it official ...The restaurant had opened up other locations over the years, including in Long Beach ... in downtown Long Beach.
Just head to the Seaport district, for so long a wasteland of car parks and abandoned wharfs and now home to more than 350 companies, from big biotech firms to start-ups, as well as brilliant nightlife and waterfront shopping.
Mississippi Business Journal
27 Dec 2024
Mississippi Business Journal
27 Dec 2024