Sixty years ago today — the Ocean Beach Pier first opened on July 2nd, 1966.
And OB photographer, Steve Rowell, was there to snap this famous photo of opening day. (I wasn’t there — I was away at college.)
The photo appears to show people lining up at the pier’s gate, with the parking lot packed.
All those years the pier was being built … kids on the beach used to tell the passage of time by what number of piling was currently being built, such as ‘my girlfriend and I broke up on the 14th piling but we made up on the 17th.’
