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Santa Monica is also the home of the Third Street Promenade, a major outdoor pedestrian-oriented shopping district that stretches for three blocks between Wilshire Blvd. and Broadway Blvd. Third Street has been closed for those three blocks and converted to a pedestrians-only stretch to allow people to congregate, shop, and enjoy street performers. The Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome is a National Historic Landmark. It sits on the Santa Monica Pier, which was built in nineteen o nine. The La Monica Ballroom on the pier was once the largest ballroom in the US , and the source for many New Year's Eve national network broadcasts. The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was an important music venue for several decades and hosted the Academy Awards in the nineteen sixties. McCabe's Guitar Shop is still a leading acoustic performance space, as well as retail outlet. Bergamot Station is a city-owned art gallery compound that includes the Santa Monica Museum of Art. The city is also home to the Santa Monica Heritage Museum . Santa Monica is known for having a large population of British and Irish expatriates, which accounts for the numerous pubs in the city. Some bars are as likely to show English Premiership games as they are American football games. Natives and tourists alike have enjoyed the Santa Monica Rugby Club since nineteen seventy-two. The club has been very successful since its conception, most recently winning back-to-back national championships in two thousand five and six. Santa Monica defeated the Boston Irish Wolfhounds fifty-seven to nineteen in the Division one final, convincingly claiming its second consecutive American title on June fourth, two thousand six, in San Diego . They offer Men's, Women's and a thriving children's programs. The club recently joined the Rugby Super League. Santa Monica College , SMC, informally known as "Pico Tech," "Harvard-by-the-Sea" or "UC Santa Monica”, is a junior college founded in nineteen twenty-nine. Many SMC graduates transfer to the University of California system. It occupies thirty-five acres, or fourteen hectares, and enrolls thirty thousand students annually. The Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, associated with the RAND Corporation, is the U.S.'s largest producer of public policy Ph.D.s. Universities and colleges within a fifteen-mile radius from Santa Monica include Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles Valley College, Loyola Marymount University, Pepperdine University, UCLA, West Los Angeles College and West Valley Occupational Center.
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