{"id":16078,"date":"2014-04-15T01:40:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T08:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16078"},"modified":"2014-04-15T01:40:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T08:40:50","slug":"celebrate-santa-monicas-beach-house-with-a-beach-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/celebrate-santa-monicas-beach-house-with-a-beach-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Santa Monica&#8217;s Beach House with a Beach Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/smbhous.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Californians love beaches and in Santa Monica they love them more, thanks to the magnificent house on the sand. William Randolph Hearst (Hearst Castle) built a not-so-modest five acre oceanfront estate with a 100-room mansion for his lady love, actress\u00a0Marion Davies.\u00a0Using the renown architect,\u00a0Julia Morgan,\u00a0whose work graces Hearst Castle, the Santa Monica beach mansion was constructed in the 1920s and became well-known among the Hollywood elite who visited &amp; partied into the night on the exclusive Pacific playground surrounding the property. The Golden Era eventually ended and the mansion fell into disrepair.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"imgs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/small\/mardav2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, thanks to the generosity of many people and the amazing Annenberg Foundation, the $31.5 million\u00a0Annenberg Community Beach House operated by the City of Santa Monica is free to see, free to enjoy, and free to celebrate on April 26-27, 2014. Its 5th anniversary and the 25th Anniversary of the Annenberg Foundation include &#8220;memory moments&#8221; as well as contemporary activities both on the sand and in the house. \u00a0Yoga on the Beach, old-fashioned beach games, the Aqualillies synchronized swim team and tours of the remaining Guest House (main mansion was demolished in 1956,) are a sampling of the many things to do throughout the two-day beach fest. Highlighting this non-stop event is an unforgettable\u00a0beach picnic with a musical performance by Doozy to accompany a classic 1928 Marion Davies silent film,<em> Show People<\/em>, on the sand. \u00a0Get the full schedule of events at beachhouse.smgov.net or call Guest Services: (310) 458-4904.<\/p>\n<p>Also be sure to attend<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-monica-festival.html\"> Santa Monica Festival<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Californians love beaches and in Santa Monica they love them more, thanks to the magnificent house on the sand. William Randolph Hearst (Hearst Castle) built a not-so-modest five acre oceanfront estate with a 100-room mansion for his lady love, actress\u00a0Marion Davies.\u00a0Using the renown architect,\u00a0Julia Morgan,\u00a0whose work graces Hearst Castle, the Santa Monica beach mansion was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16078"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}