- Ocean Front Walk, Santa Monica State Beach, Santa Monica, CA, United States, 90401. +1 800 544 5319 (Tourist Information).
- …center of physical culture was Muscle Beach, also in Santa Monica. Starting with a single platform on the beach in 1938, a collection of acrobats, gymnasts...
- Weight lifters still strut their stuff at this outdoor gym where, in the 30s, 40s and 50s, crowds would gather to watch young men and women honing their bodies.
- The city of Santa Monica wrestled with the new-found fame of Muscle Beach in the 1940s and 50s...
- The Original Muscle Beach was an outdoor body-building gym on the beach just south of the Santa Monica Pier.
- LOS ANGELES – JULY 24: A muscle builder man holds up a woman behind his back at Muscle Beach on July 24, 1949 in Santa Monica, California.
- Muscle Beach alludes to the selective Santa Monica area of the origin of the physical wellness blast in the United States.
- Muscle Beach was forced to move to a new location in the 1980s due to the development of the Santa Monica Pier.
- What began in the late 1930s as a playground for acrobats, @ the Original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, California, remains today as a historical site dedicated...
- Patrice says: “Back in 1949 Muscle Beach was actually in Santa Monica, just south of SM Pier.