Children’s Pool beach was created when La Jolla benefactress Ellen Browning Scripps commissioned the construction of a seawall to create a safe, calm place for children to swim on the 800 block of Coast Boulevard South. In 1921, Scripps hired engineer Hiram Newton Savage, architect William Templeton Johnson, and contractor W. M. Ledbetter and Company for the job. La Jolla Children’s Pool opened in the spring of 1931.
History: The original Scripps Pier, built in 1915-1916, was a 1,000-foot-long facility for acquiring clean seawater for the campus laboratories and the public aquarium. Ellen Browning Scripps provided all of the money ($36,000) for its construction.
