OCEAN PARK SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA BIG FISH STERLING SILVER SOUVENIR SPOON

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GREAT GIFT FOR ANY FISHERMAN. Here is a beautiful sterling silver spoon from Ocean Park now Santa Monica California (just west of Los Angeles with great beaches at Pacific Ocean) dating back to years around 1900 featuring the ornate handle; on the front features big fish in the net and sea shell down the handle. In the bowl it has engraved writing OCEAN PARK. On the back of handle has image of a marine scene with sailing boats, ship, two oars and ending with a naval anchor. Condition of the spoon is excellent, measures 5-3/8” long (135 mm). On the back marked STERLING. Shipping on multiple purchases are gladly combined. Please see other, some rare, collector spoons I'm currently listing.
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Although Santa Monica and Ocean Park (South Santa Monica) were both settled at the same time (in the early 1870’s), Ocean Park’s history is somewhat independent from that of the rest of Santa Monica. Separated from the north by a gully which today is occupied by the Santa Monica Freeway, Ocean Park was initially oriented towards the beach where a series of piers and other tourist attractions were erected in 1890 to 1910. Much of the housing during this initial period of development was deliberately temporary in nature. Although residential tracts began to be subdivided from the large blocks of land owned by families such as the Lucas’ and the Vawters, construction tended to cluster on streets nearest the ocean, with the 4th Street hill as the inland boundary. One of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, Ocean Park sprang to life with Abott Kinney’s 1891 Ocean Park Development Company. Kinney bought a sandy strip of land in Santa Monica’s southwestern edge and began building roads, homes, parks and piers. After 1904, Kinney moved his attention to his Venice of America development (also called Ocean Park at the time), south of the Santa Monica city boundary. The history of Venice and Ocean Park are intertwined. From 1905 to 1925, Ocean Park was developed by people such as Fraser, Merritt Jones, Hart, Hollister and Wadsworth. A long period of decline was interrupted briefly from 1958 to 1967 by Pacific Ocean Park (POP). A large section of the ocean front area was razed as part of the Ocean Park Redevelopment Project of 1964.