Stolen?

Really?  These are memento's from the original Moby's Dock that was abandoned after a severe storm destroyed the end of Santa Monica Pier in 1983.  They once were served up with a drink called Blue Marlin if I remember rightly.  I've been doing some light spring cleaning and came across these and other mementos Kathy collected.

From the Los Angeles Times 1986:
Santa Monica Pier Renewal to Retain 'Funky' Character
June 09, 1986|DAVE PALERMO | Times Staff Writer

"Look how beautiful they are," Slotsky said. "Every one of those horses is handmade. I've been coming here for 25, 30 years and, even when the place was closed, I'd rub the stuff off the windows and look inside. I've got a lot of memories from this place, and my kid will have the same memories I have."

Santa Monica city officials are hoping Danielle will, indeed, be able to share her father's memories. A $12-million project aimed at rebuilding the historic but decaying pier began last week, when a crane was moved into place to help reinforce the end section of the wooden structure, weakened in the fierce winter storms of 1983.
Work to replace about 45,000 square feet of the southeast part of the pier will begin in October or November, and another 400 linear feet of seaward pier ripped away in the same bad weather will be replaced late next year.

In addition, city and state officials Friday cut the ribbon to officially open Carrousel Park, a $1.3-million playground of pavilions, ramps, walks, merry-go- rounds and landscaping connecting Ocean Front Walk to the pier.
The park, the first major improvement to the pier since it was built in 1911, was developed to draw more parents and children, Pier Manager Judith Meister said.
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Fisherman's, a Seattle-based restaurant chain, will move into the abandoned Moby's Dock restaurant at the ocean end of the pier this fall and city officials are looking for someone to take over Sinbad's, a large red-brick building and reopen it as a theater, restaurant or cabaret.
But Meister said the idea is not to clean the place up too much. Nor does the city want to entice expensive shops and restaurants.
Instead, Meister envisions a place where people with low and moderate incomes can take their children without blowing the weekly paycheck. She likes the pushcart vendors selling ice cream and tacos, and the spontaneity of "Zero Gravity," a group of young men who engage in a form of stand-up break dancing which member Steve Daniels calls "pop-locking."
"We don't necessarily want to change the character of the pier so much as we want to give the people more choices of things to do," Meister said. "We want to make this a pleasure pier. The Santa Monica Pier is funky, and we want to keep it funky."
Despite the gradual decay and storm damage, more than 3 million people trample the sand and walk the pier every year, Meister said.