UCSD Scripps Pier

This guide to UCSD's Scripps Pier in La Jolla starts in nineteen forty, when a quarter bought a full day of fishing off these planks and twenty dollars bought a lifetime pass with unlimited days. It traces the pier back to its nineteen sixteen construction, funded by patron Ellen Browning Scripps for the new Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the moment the fishing stopped so the pier could serve research instead. Look down the beach on either side of the pier for surfers paddling out at the break.