A Guide to Search Results for "Santa Monica"
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The search term "Santa Monica" is a more or less unequivocal reference to the city of Santa Monica, which is located on the Santa Monica Bay at the southern foot of the Santa Monica Mountains in the county of Los Angeles, California. Santa Monica is also the name of a boulevard that runs through a number of cities in Los Angeles County, including Santa Monica. The geographic area now known as Santa Monica was originally named by the Portola expedition when they arrived there in 1769 on the feast day of Saint Monica, mother of Saint Augustine and the patron saint of married women, mothers, widows, alcoholics, and victims of abuse and adultery. The name Santa Monica was eventually applied to two Spanish land grants in present day Los Angeles County, Boca de Santa Monica and San Vicente y Santa Monica, which were sold in 1872 to developers who hoped to make Santa Monica Bay into the primary port of Los angeles. However, Santa Monica became a resort community instead, one which has since been subsumed into the larger Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

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Are you looking for Web directories and portals covering "Santa Monica," California?

Are you looking for law and government Web sites in "Santa Monica," California?

Are you looking for information about travel, tourism, and transportation to, in, and around "Santa Monica," California?

Are you looking for Web sites featuring Webcam views and weather information for "Santa Monica," California?

Are you looking for schools, colleges, universities, and libraries in "Santa Monica," California?

Are you looking for Web sites covering entertainment and the arts in "Santa Monica," California?

  • Santa Monica Review
    A nationally distributed literary arts journal sponsored by Santa Monica College.

  • Santa Monica Film Festival
    Celebrating independent filmmakers and raising money to fight cancer.

  • Santa Monica Press
    Publisher of how-to books and offbeat looks at popular culture from film history to literature.

  • KCRW.com
    Alternative, Eclectic, World, Pop, Jazz, Electronic, House and Hip Hop music and NPR, PRI, BBC and VOA news. Listen live or on-demand with RealAudio.

  • Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra
    Dedicated to providing high-quality, admission-free concerts from the classical and contemporary symphony repertoire to Santa Monica and West Lost Angeles.

  • Santa Monica Playhouse
    Now in its 42nd year, providing theatre entertainment and theatre related workshops to the Los Angeles area and, through international programs, to the world.

  • Hennessey + Ingalls
    A bookstore in Santa Monica, California specializing in books on all the visual arts.

  • American Film Market
    Home of independent filmmakers, located in Santa Monica, California.

Are you looking for museums in "Santa Monica," California?

  • Santa Monica Museum of Art
    Contemporary art museum, located in the Bergamot Station Arts Center. Exhibitions by emerging and established international artists.

  • Museum of Flying
    Located at the Santa Monica Airport, on the exact spot where Donald Douglas Aircraft Company manufactured and tested both military and commercial aircraft for 46 years, formerly the Donald Douglas Museum and Library.

  • ArtScene - Santa Monica Museum of Art
    Information and articles covering exhibitions at the museum.

Are you looking for newspapers covering "Santa Monica," California?

Are you looking for information about business and commerce in "Santa Monica," California?

  • Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce
    Advocates and represents interests and issues affecting the business community.

  • Santa Monica Place
    Originally designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, built in 1980, renovated in 1990, this tri-level skylit galleria is the site of many Hollywood movie shoots, featuring 570,000 square feet of shops, services and eateries.

  • Downtown Santa Monica & Third Street Promenade
    Shopping, dining, and entertainment, featuring a twice-weekly farmers market.

Are you looking for information about the "Santa Monica" Pier?

  • Santa Monica Pier
    A popular attraction featuring an amusement-park, a vintage carousel, free concerts, restaurants, fishing, and swimming.

  • Heal the Bay - Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
    A marine science aquarium located at beach-level, just below the Carousel, at the Santa Monica Pier.

  • Pacific Park
    Web site of the family amusement park at the Santa Monica Pier.

Are you looking for information about the "Santa Monica" Mountains National Recreation Area?

Are you looking for information about "Santa Monica" Mountains?

  • Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
    An agency of the State of California, seeking to buy back, preserve, protect, restore, and enhance pieces of land in Southern California to form an interlinking system of urban, rural, and river parks; open space; trails; and wildlife habitats that are easily accessible to the general public.

  • Stunt Ranch Santa Monica Reserve
    Home of a rich deposit of prehistoric artifacts dating from 3,000 B.C. to 1,000 A.D, making this a significant archaeological site, offering researchers and students an opportunity to study the changing adaptations of human populations in the the Santa Monica Mountains.

Are you looking for information about the "Santa Monica" Bay?

  • Santa Monica BayKeeper
    A self-styled citizen "park ranger" organization for the Santa Monica Bay, San Pedro Bay, and the adjacent coastal waters and watersheds, dedicated to surveying the environmental health of these resources, alerting the public to potential hazards, and exposing those who contribute in any way to the degradation of this ecosystem.

  • Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission
    An independent state organization established by the State of California and the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a National Estuary Program, dedicated to restoring and protecting the Santa Monica Bay and its resources.

  • Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society
    A chapter of the National Audubon Society with a territory that goes along the Pacific Coast of Los Angeles County through Manhattan Beach, El Segundo, Playa del Rey, Marina del Rey, Venice, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades and Malibu.

Are you looking for information about something that has the name "Santa Monica," but has nothing whatsoever to do with the city of Santa Monica?

  • Antigua Villa Santa Monica
    The former residence of Mexican opera singer Padre Jose Mohica in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajato, Mexico is now home to a fourteen suite resort hotel.

  • Santa Monica Boulevard Transit Parkway Project
    A reconstruction and reconfiguration project for Santa Monica Boulevard in the City of Los Angeles, neighboring the City of Santa Monica to the east.

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