I used to fish off that pier when I as a lad in the 50’s. Also Huntington Beach and Newport Beach piers.
In the early 1960's, I liked to fish off of those piers, where we would regularly catch Pasadena trout. Later, when I took party boats out to sea to go fishing, I considered Pasadena trout to be a nuisance and threw back any that I caught.
Durning the 1950's, buoys apparently used to hold up anti-submarine nets during WWII were stacked in a field near the pier at Seal Beach. Some were long, resembling oil drums but much larger, while others were spherical. When we first saw them in the summer of 1956, my mother thought the long bouys were bombs and that the spherical ones were torpedoes.
On the way to Huntington Beach, we would drive past farms. In July, 1960, we took Golden West Ave. as an alternate route to the pier. I'll never forget passing one dairy farm after another. Hard to believe that Golden West Ave. today, with its strip malls, office buildings and community college is the very same street.