{"id":23900,"date":"2022-01-06T06:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=23900"},"modified":"2022-01-06T06:55:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:55:35","slug":"frasers-million-dollar-pier-on-fire-at-ocean-park-beach-in-santa-monica-california-september-3-1912-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2022\/01\/06\/frasers-million-dollar-pier-on-fire-at-ocean-park-beach-in-santa-monica-california-september-3-1912-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser’s Million Dollar Pier on fire at Ocean Park Beach in Santa Monica, California, September 3, 1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23901\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2022\/01\/06\/frasers-million-dollar-pier-on-fire-at-ocean-park-beach-in-santa-monica-california-september-3-1912-2\/frasers-million-dollar-pier-on-fire-at-ocean-park-beach-in-santa-monica-california-circa-september-3-1912\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frasers-Million-Dollar-Pier-on-fire-at-Ocean-Park-Beach-in-Santa-Monica-California-circa-September-3-1912.jpg?fit=800%2C462&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,462\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"Fraser’s Million Dollar Pier on fire at Ocean Park Beach in Santa Monica, California, September 3, 1912\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frasers-Million-Dollar-Pier-on-fire-at-Ocean-Park-Beach-in-Santa-Monica-California-circa-September-3-1912.jpg?fit=300%2C173&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frasers-Million-Dollar-Pier-on-fire-at-Ocean-Park-Beach-in-Santa-Monica-California-circa-September-3-1912.jpg?fit=640%2C370&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23901\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frasers-Million-Dollar-Pier-on-fire-at-Ocean-Park-Beach-in-Santa-Monica-California-circa-September-3-1912.jpg?resize=640%2C370&ssl=1\" alt=\"Fraser's Million Dollar Pier on fire at Ocean Park Beach in Santa Monica, California, circa September 3, 1912\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frasers-Million-Dollar-Pier-on-fire-at-Ocean-Park-Beach-in-Santa-Monica-California-circa-September-3-1912.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frasers-Million-Dollar-Pier-on-fire-at-Ocean-Park-Beach-in-Santa-Monica-California-circa-September-3-1912.jpg?resize=300%2C173&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frasers-Million-Dollar-Pier-on-fire-at-Ocean-Park-Beach-in-Santa-Monica-California-circa-September-3-1912.jpg?resize=768%2C444&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Building piers along the Pacific shore was a very popular thing, which is a little surprising because nearly all of them caught fire and burned to the ground (or to the water, as the case may be) at one time or another. But it\u2019s not often that we can catch a glimpse of one California\u2019s piers in the middle of being destroyed. This was Fraser’s Million Dollar Pier at Ocean Park Beach (which is between Santa Monica beach and Venice beach) which was destroyed by fire on September 3, 1912. This is a remarkable photo so I can only imagine what it must have been to witness it in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building piers along the Pacific shore was a very popular thing, which is a little surprising because nearly all of them caught fire and burned to the ground (or to the water, as the case may be) at one time … <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2022\/01\/06\/frasers-million-dollar-pier-on-fire-at-ocean-park-beach-in-santa-monica-california-september-3-1912-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,7],"class_list":["post-23900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beaches","tag-night-photo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-6du","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23903,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23900\/revisions\/23903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}