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Article: Redondo Beach pier comes back from store, fire.
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 2, 1994
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A crane working on a platform in the waters off Redondo Beach one day in March reached a claw into the ocean and pulled up a stove.
The stove is believed to have once been part of Cattleman's restaurant, which fell into the ocean on May 27, 1988, when a spectacular fire destroyed the horseshoe-shaped city pier.
Prior to the fire, the pier had been battered and weakened by a January 1988 storm in which 20-foot waves slammed into the wooden structure.
The fire and storm left intact another, straight pier, called the Monstad Pier, but Redondo Beach's U-shaped pier, which stood alongside it, was gone.
Six years after the fire and storm, ...