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., 1920s, 1902, 1895, 1893, 1892, 1891,
"The Long Wharf was constructed in 1891 off Potrero Canyon. "When the first steamer docked in May, 1893, more than 1,000 local citizens . . . While the Santa Monica town band played, residents swarmed aboard ship and decked it with home grown flowers." p. 27
[The Roy Jones family home ca. 1895 is pictured on pages 44 and 45 in situ in the 1000 block on Ocean Avenue and it is now located at the corner of Main and Ocean Park Boulevard and houses one of the Santa Monica Historical Societies.]
[The advertisement from 1902 on page 47 has several details of Ocean Park, including a pier at perhaps Venice.]
[Utah Avenue is now Broadway. Oregon Avenue is now Santa Monica Boulevard. Nevada is now Wilshire Boulevard. Linda Vista Park was renamed Palisades Park during the '20s]
"Actual development in the Venice area began in 1892 when Abbot Kinney, world-traveled connoisseur of art and scenic beauty (and wealthy manufacturer of Sweet Caporal cigarettes), induced the Santa Fe Railroad to extend its tracks northward from Port Ballona . . . that was abandoned in the mid-1880's. . . . p. 76
"Carnation fields in Ocean Park, 1899. A single acre of this experimental garden produced 35,000 carnation blossoms in one season and the carpet of color was one of the advertised tourist attractions on the Santa Fe's line from Los Angeles to Ocean Park. The oldest structures still standing in the area are cottages built in the 1890s when these gardens were established-small frame houses with Victorian ornamentation located on the 'Carnation Tract' between Rose and Sunset Avenues, Washington Boulevard and Fourth Street." p.72