In 1958, another pesky storm damages the Huntington Beach pier, tearing away 800 piece of it. That is a very significant portion of the pier.
In 1983, Mother Nature and perhaps even the god of the sea Neptune does not smile on the pier. A storm takes out 30 concrete pilings and 500 square feet of deckspace. The cafe is also lost to the sea.
1985 marks another re-opening of the pier, this time with a $400,000 renovation and a two-story cafe at the end of the pier known as the End Cafe.
It did not take long, less than a ear, for nature to chip away at the
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pier again, this time, chump change; repairs cost just $25.000.
A very large blow to the community came in 1988 when two days of relenting storms and 20-foot waves took out 50 feet of the pier. But its damage was too severe overall and the pier was declared unsafe. It remained closed for four years for reconstruction.
in 1992, the pier was reopened after the '88 storm. It featured a new structural design of reinforced steel with concrete-coated epoxy protection. The architects followed the design of the 1914 version of the pier. It was now 1853 feet long. |
