Pacific Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"—and Pacific Ocean Park gathers itself like a small facsimile pleasure-island: rides, a simulated sea, Neptune holding court over rainbowed fish, make-believe jungles."

"…as we walk toward Venice West, past the tourist “international” restaurants like a small hybrid town—beyond Pacific Ocean Park, past the beach stores and food counters, past the old retired people who sit on the benches dozing throughout the day…"

"We walk through Pacific Ocean Park—the gay sounds of the many people still on that candy‐colored strip only emphasizing the thundering silence between us."