Redondo Beach Pier
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Book by Jennifer Krintz, ASM Architectural Historian
Piers have always drawn the curious nature of people to the mysterious wonder of the ocean. The ability to walk on water with the construction of a pier has created for humans a sense of temporary mastery of the mysterious and merciless sea. The Southern California shoreline has always attracted tourists from near and far to experience the natural beauty of the coastline. Capitalizing on the natural and man-made appeal of the ocean and the pleasure pier, Henry Huntington created in Redondo Beach a fantasyland of wonder and excitement for beach-goers in the early twentieth century. As one of the major rivals to the pleasure piers of Santa Monica, Ocean Park and Venice to the north, the Endless Pier, and later the adjacent Monstad Pier in Redondo Beach drew in thousands of tourists a day. Pleasure-seekers can still fish, enjoy dinner and music, shop or simply take a nightly stroll over the water on today’s Municipal Pier; remnants from the heyday of Redondo Beach’s pleasure pier of the early twentieth century.
ASM’s Associate Architectural Historian, Jennifer Krintz, M.H.P. has published her first book on the history of the Redondo Beach Pier. Her Master’s thesis was written about the history of the southern California pleasure piers of the early twentieth century. As such, she has written her first publication on one of the subject piers in her thesis: The Redondo Beach Pier (Arcadia Publishing, 2011).
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JENNIFER KRINTZ
Ms. Krintz serves ASM as Architectural Historian, bringing with her previous experience in cultural resources and historic preservation planning, evaluation and documentation. Her expertise includes the documentation and evaluation of historic resources on local, state and Federal levels, particularly survey work, Section 106 review, National Register nominations, Historic Building Inventory and Evaluations, HABS/HAER documentation, Environmental Assessments and Impact Statements, municipal ordinances and amendments, Historic Properties Survey Reports and Historic Resources Evaluation Reports, and feasibility studies. In addition to her professional experience as an Associate Architectural Historian for ASM, Jennifer Krintz has also published a book on the history of the Redondo Beach pier.
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Ms. Krintz has received various Professional Excellence and foundation awards for her work in the field of historic preservation. Her first book, The Redondo Beach Pier, is a pictorial history of the Redondo Beach pier, and will be out for publication in May 2011.
The book studies the waterfront history of Redondo Beach from the era of shipping wharves to the era of pleasure piers. Ms. Krintz also wrote her graduate thesis on the history of Southern California’s beach resorts.