r/SantaMonica

I was having a discussion with the friend about what were the iconic Santa Monica tshirts from around town. Here is ours:

McCabe’s
Vidiots
Daily Pint
Chez Jay
Rip City

Any others you’d add?

The space was beautiful inside. Why has no one tried to reopen in there?

Genuinely confused by what happened to me just now. I’m a tourist here for the World Cup and had just walked from Santa Monica Pier down to Venice Beach boardwalk and really enjoyed my time interacting with all the cool people on the way. Around 6pm I ordered a Lyft to get back to LA where I’m staying and was walking a couple streets down from the Muscle Beach part to get to it (road closures etc wouldn’t let me select further in), but lots of people around, at a crosswalk towards a restaurant that I think sold tacos and some other food, when some guy started randomly looking at me and shouting from across the cross walk.

No idea what he was saying and unsure if it was directed at me so probably stupidly I still continued to cross but tried to cross diagonally behind a lot of other people and away from the guy, but he followed me over and stood in front of me. He started really aggressively getting in my face and shouting something at me in Spanish about ‘seniorita’ and and ‘americanos’ - had no idea what he was talking about, so I just said I don’t understand and tried to walk away but he followed me and said ‘you understand me huh?’ which was pretty scary, catching up to me and pushed me into the road where cars were crossing. At that point another guy who was standing there the whole time and smiling a bit before the push (an older white guy not hispanic like the guy following me) suddenly said ‘Stop’ which he seemed to react to - not sure if he knew him or was just a helpful bystander - and I ran across the active street dodging cars and got away from him. Thankfully he didn’t follow.

Anyone have any idea what possibly could have happened? Just another crazy person or did I unknowingly do something?

Was probably stupid to even go in the general direction when he was there instead of just turning around and walking away when I got the first sign of a randomer talking to me I know but I didn’t expect that to happen and I had to get down that road anyway.. I feel pretty lucky I got away with just a push really when I imagine what could’ve happened..

It has been a month of me migrating to the Los Angeles with my dad. I am starting my undergrad this fall. I chose a college from my home country and got admitted to it and I messed up😭

I chose Santa Monica College as my transfer college because of its amazing transfer rates into top UCs. But the problem occured when I got here. Its far from here😂😭I live in Norwalk. My dad has a car but although I am learning how to drive, I think most likely I will use a public transport for my college. The map says its like 2 hours from my location which is 4 hours round trip. With a car, its like 30-40 minutes drive and an hour long if heavy traffic.

I really appreciate some help from you guys. If you have some tips / solutions which can be useful. I would really appreciate it.

The wife and I happened to walk past this evening around 10:00. The wait was ~10 mins. We had the TCRI slice, red sauce, stracciatella cheese and basil infused olive oil. It was stupid expensive for a slice (9 bucks) but I would definitely tell someone to go. At the risk of jinxing myself, this is the best pizza I've had in SAMO

- a former New Yorker

There is a large makeshift Trump parade of cars driving through town and using their degenerate motorcyclists to block off intersections and block flow of traffic to let their collective hive through.

I also understand they do this to “own the libs” because they don’t have anything else to do on a holiday. Why is SMPD allowing this?

They do this every year on every major holiday, I don’t care that you support the orange fascist and we have 1st amendment rights to that, but don’t block traffic and flick off crowd and cars to get your point across.

About 15 years ago I picked up a photographic book from a Goodwill in West LA about the original Pacific Ocean Park, that features hundreds of photos in its prime. Anyone know of any interesting stories or folklore about it? That place was a work of art!

Hi everybody,

I have a friend of a friend who’s visiting Santa Monica and asked me for recommendations for a plan for tonight.

He would like to see fireworks and loves a great party! I don’t know if there are any really great rooftop recommendations or honestly anything. He’s traveling internationally so I’d like to give him a great time!!

Im not gonna be joining, not sure if he is solo, im assuming he is

Thank you so much
- fellow neighbor from OC who leads a pretty boring life lol!

For the last few months a neighbor in my building has been verbally and physically assaulting people in the building. He yells the n-word at Black tenants and walks around in only a towel in the middle of the street - he jumped in front of my car once. There’s two small boys who live with him - around 10 and 5. They don’t go to school and don’t leave the apartment. He’s told me and a few other women in the building he’s going to kill us. SMPD have known for months now and haven’t done anything beyond saying “they’re looking into it”. He throws rocks and canned food at people from his balcony as they walk through the courtyard of the building. 3 weeks ago he punched a gardener who was doing some work on the property. The tenant was arrested but made bail and came back the next day, extra angry. A few days ago he attacked a nearly 70 year old woman on the property. Punched her and then broke all the windows of her car when she tried to hide in it. The guys kids were cussing at her as the guy attacked her. He also punched another woman who tried to help. He then fled into his apartment and the cops still won’t arrest him cus they say they don’t have a warrant to go in and are still “looking into it”. I’m scared for whoever the next victim will be.

What is SMPD doing?? What are they waiting for?? Any tips on how to protect myself since all i’ve gotten from the cops is “don’t film him because that’ll make him mad at you”

Does anyone know where to get some food today? All the normal resources (salvation army, people concern, ) were closed yesterday, closed today, and closed tmmr. I woulda thought DoorDash delivery’s woulda been popping on a holiday weekend but I only made $12 yesterday and no orders today, probably cuz there’s so many other people dashing this weekend. So I’m just wondering if there’s anything going on where I could go grab a free bite to eat.

Anyone know of a neighborhood watercolor class (or even interested in doing a community get together and painting) in Santa Monica? Ideally can only do weekends because I work during the week but would love something regular!