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The Walk of a Thousand Lights

from TO​.​.​.​.​OBLIVION by Alexander Elliott Miller

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Long Beach's downtown waterfront has changed dramatically over the years. Most of the real estate which is now home to the Aquarium of the Pacific, Shoreline Village and the dock of the Queen Mary was originally ocean, built out through landfill projects during the 20th Century. The original beach, located as far north as what is now Seaside Way, was not only a popular bathing beach, but hosted a large amusement park from 1902 through 1979. Its official name was the Pike, but I prefer its nickname, "The Walk of a Thousand Lights," derived from the strings of lights suspended above its main thoroughfare.

Demolished by 1979, the site is now home to the Pike Outlets, a standard contemporary shopping mall bearing no resemblance to its predecessor, its name merely an homage. But in its day, The Pike Amusement Park was known as a sort of "Coney Island of the West," complete with shooting galleries, fun houses, sideshows, a grand bath house, ballrooms and rides including a double ferris wheel, carousels and, most prominently, a famous roller coaster extending off a pier near the water, The Cyclone Racer.

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from TO​.​.​.​.​OBLIVION, released October 19, 2018
Alexander Elliott Miller, electric guitar & electronics

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Alexander Elliott Miller Los Angeles, California

Alexander Elliott Miller is a composer and guitarist whose music has been described as "wild... unearthly... lyrical... a voice worth listening to" (San Francisco Classical Voice) and "deceptively laid back in an LA way... inventive... unconventional" (LA Times).

Miller is on the faculty of CSU Long Beach and Chapman University, where he teaches music theory and composition. ... more

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