About the Book

Dave Doherty brings back the long-forgotten days of Pacific Ocean Park, or P.O.P., with a generous splash of color and rhyme. Built during his childhood, Doherty remembers the nautical-themed park that sparked his young imagination and continues to do so today.

He reminisces in an abundant array of colors of the profusion of sights, sounds, and screams that the various amusements of P.O.P. engendered. Truly, there was an enormous number of things to do, all luxuriously spread out over the twenty-eight-acre property. Included in Doherty’s illustrated attractions of the park are The Mystic Isles, Ocean Skyride, Fun Forest, Diving Bell, Paratrooper, and Flight to Mars, among many others.

In keeping with history, Doherty does not overlook the eventual demise of the park, but sketches in the fire that burned the Banana train in a splendid, colorful death, beautiful like the sunset, or a fireworks display. There Once was a Place Called P.O.P. will promote your visual pleasure and kindle the excitement that seems to intimately interlace with amusement parks, while leaving behind a sense of loss of the things that make childhood the amazing stage that it is.

 

Revisit P.O.P. in color.
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ISBN13 (TP) 978-1-4363-6189-7
ISBN13 (HB) 978-1-4363-6190-3

 

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About the Author

Dave Doherty, an artist and illustrator, is a veteran of many theme park projects, including Universal’s Islands of Adventure, Universal Studios Japan and Universal Studios Hollywood. His contributions to these projects was generally in a Design Research capacity and what he tends to refer to as “Border Collie” detail. Dave is a Southern California native, with a BFA in painting from Atlanta College of Art in Georgia. Dave currently resides a few miles east of the “Dinosaurs of Cabazon” in California. Further information about the artist and this subject can be found at www.rippop.com and www.DavidDohertyPaintings.com.