Just before 6 p.m. on the afternoon of May 18, 1906, twenty-year-old Highland Park resident Elizabeth Beatty stepped onto the boardwalk of the newest amusement pier in Los Angeles County. Jutting out nearly a quarter of a mile west into the Pacific Ocean, the pier was alive with people, and there was an electricity in the air—a palpable feeling that something magic was going to take place....
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