Fred E. Basten Santa Monica Bay: The First 100 Years, A pictorial history of Santa Monica, Venice, Ocean Park, Pacific Palisades, Topanga and Malibu, Douglas-West Publishers: Los Angeles, CA, 1974, 227 pp., 1934, 1931, 1917, 1916
"Santa Monica's two piers appear as one, 1916. The smaller Loof Pier was the predecessor of today's Newcomb Pier and held the amusement area. The adjoining Municipal Pier was reconstructed in 1921 when it was widened and extended 1,640 feet." p. 96.
"By legislative act, approved April 10, 1917, the State of California made a grant to the City of Santa Monica, in trust for harbor and other public purposes, of the tidelands and submerged lands within the boundaries of the city and below the mean high tide line. This made the city's waterfront activities possible, including its breakwater (built in 1934) and yacht harbor for which Santa Monicans voted a $690,000 bond issue in 1931-despite the Great Depression." p. 97