Ocean Shores, California is the main setting of Rocket Power. It is a medium sized city along the coast of Southern California.
Early promotional material about Rocket Power hosted on the Nickelodeon website situated the world of Rocket Power in a city called "Ocean Park" - which is a real place in West Los Angeles near the beach towns of Santa Monica and Venice Beach.
The Ocean Shores Police Department serves as the primary police service in the city.
Ocean Shores celebrates its Founders Days on April 1st.
Economy[]
Like many towns in Southern California, Ocean Shores generates significant income from its beachfront. The town's largest public asset is its pier with many stores, restaurants and an amusement park (Dream Park). Local residents and out of town tourists (often unfortunately called shoobies) flock to the beach every summer.
Ocean shores is shown to have several high rise office buildings. The city has at least one oil well, a common site in the Los Angeles suburban area. The town has a dump for local waste disposal. Ocean Shores also has a port for small to medium sized maritime vessels, similar to Long Beach or Newport. Ocean shores is located near a major airport, likely Los Angeles International, with flights to New Zealand and Hawaii.
A wide view of the Cup-de-sac.
While Ocean Shores is largely comprised of middle class residents who have lived in the area for many years, recently more wealthy residents (or as Otto refers to them as snobs and rich shoobies) have begun to move in, albeit choosing to live in upscale communities some distance from the Beach such as Ocean Shores Bluffs.
Notable Locations[]
- The California Incline
- Madtown
- Ocean Shores Elementary School
- Ocean Shores Beach Club
- Ocean Shores Town Dump
- Shore Shack
- The Pier
- The Secret Spot
- Rocket Beach
Real Life Ocean Shores[]
There is a real life Ocean Shores located in the Pacific Northwest state of Washington. It is located nearly a thousand miles north of the Ocean Shores depicted in this series and features a completely different climate. The city of Ocean Shores, Washington is located on the West Coast and faces the same Pacific Ocean as the Ocean Shores, California in the show. Ocean Shores, Washington is a small coastal community on the cool and wet shores of the Pacific Northwest and is stretched along the Brown Peninsula. The city has many hotels, motels, inns, and resorts dotting the coast and is very popular with beach goer's from region. There are many tourist shops and restaurants. To the city's south is a planned residential area with canals, golf courses, marina's, and natural wildlife areas. To the city's west coast is the Pacific Ocean while it's eastern coast is the Grays Harbor, a large estuarine bay that serves as the mouth of the Chehalis River.
Ocean Shores location in California[]
Ocean Shores, California could possibly be a medium-sized suburb of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, located in either Orange County or western Los Angeles County east of the town of Malibu. It could also be located north of Los Angeles and south of Big Sur. The series has mentioned they play sports teams from Oxnard, California. San Diego is mentioned as a location Ray Rocket visits for an event, and Catalina Island is shown numerous times.
In the episode, "Channel Surfing," Ocean Shores lines up almost perfectly to were Ventura, California is located. The kids ride their bikes to a busy shipping channel with a seaport and marina. It lines up near perfectly with some marinas and a navy port in the real-life cities of Ventura and Oxnard, though in the series it appears to be a busier harbor for larger ships. In the horizon of this shipping channel, we see a larger city skyline further south with two taller buildings. These buildings also lineup to the cityscape of Oxnard and it's two taller high rises. It could possibly be Los Angeles in the distance as well, or just some other fictional city. It shows that Ocean Shores is actually near another larger city though.
In the episode, "The Jinx," Sam makes a comment at the end of the episode saying, "I think I see our house from here." This is a strange comment because it implies that Ocean Shores may be near Long Beach or Los Angeles, but neither can be seen from Catalina Island. It could also just be a pointless line by Sam. Another interesting bit is that they were visiting the "back side" of Catalina Island, which would mean Sam was looking further out into the Pacific at nothing but ocean. It is also possible they went to Santa Cruz Island because of its rugged coastline, which lines up with the scenery they show in the episode. If this is the case, they are much closer to Oxnard, California, another possible setting of the show that lines up fairly accurately.
In the episode "Kayaks Amok" Tito says the Catalina Classic paddle boarding event is "32 miles of glorious open sea paddling." If one leaves Ocean Shores to Catalina Island, it would line up near perfectly to where Long Beach is located. In the same episode, the camera pans from Ocean Shores to Catalina Island, placing it directly west of the city. Avalon, a town on Catalina Island is clearly shown. Also in the episode, Reggie states, "Last one to Ocean Shores..." implying it is located across from Ocean Shores. Throughout the episode they show Ocean Shores in the distance from Catalina Island. This pretty much cements Ocean Shore's location as part of the Los Angeles metro area.
The location of Ocean Shores within California.
The city's location is revealed in the episode, "Enter The Hawk-trix," when a map shows the location of Ocean Shores. Based on the location seen in this episode, Ocean Shores would be within the Los Angeles metro area or possibly near Oxnard, California.
The city is a nod to a mash-up of various beach cities in SoCal such as: Redondo Beach located in SoCal's South Bay, Long Beach located in South Bay, Huntington Beach located in Orange County, Zuma Beach located in Malibu and Laguna Beach located in Orange County. The pier is clearly based on Santa Monica Pier but has elements of Newport Beach's harbor. The residential area homes are reminiscent of those found in Orange County's beach town of San Clemente. There are episodes that take place in Hawaii as well.
The layout of the city is based on most southern California cities, and the architectural styles of its downtown buildings are based on some landmarks in Los Angeles, such as the one round high-rise building with a spire, which is the tallest building in Ocean Shores is based off the Capital Records Tower in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
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