In wartime or peacetime, after fires and storms, Southern California's piers are survivors

Piers around Southern California have a nasty habit of catching fire or otherwise surrendering to the sea. But they endure on our coast, in our civic life and in our imaginations. Why?

Over and over again, they stretch out their spindly little matchstick fingers into the mighty Pacific, and over and over again, they get their knuckles rapped. Rapped, broken, burned, smashed to bits. And yet what do they do? They keep sending those fragile digits out into the ocean, like a middle finger defying the elements.

Critically, a sewer pipe was slung under the pier to dump the city’s sewage farther offshore, a practice that ended in the late 1920s. The novelty of a concrete pier was celebrated in a September 1909 gala opening, with a playlet starring Queen Santa Monica and Rex Neptune.

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