Jeffrey Stanton Venice of America: 'Coney Island of the Pacific,' Donahue Publishing: Los Angeles, CA, 1987, 176 pp., 1963, 1960s, 1959, 1958, 1956
" . . . It [Pacific Ocean Park] did, however, attract 1,216,000 paid customers in 1963.
"It was sold in October 1963 to Irving Kay, a San Francisco real estate developer for $7.5 million. The deal included some other property. At first he leased P.O.P. back to management headed by Jack Roberts, but then in January he sold the park to Roberts' company, Amusement Purchase, Inc. for $2.5 million."