Tom Modugno: Two Piers at Goleta Beach?

Tom Modugno: Two Piers at Goleta Beach?

Did you know that Goleta Beach once had two piers at the same time? Seems crazy, right? Well there’s a logical reason. But they both didn’t last for long. The pier on the left in the photo above was only temporary. In the early 1960s, Goleta was growing very fast. Completion of Lake Cachuma was a big green light for developers, and suburbs were replacing agriculture as fast as humanly possible. All of these homes had at least a couple of toilets…