A Climate Dystopia in Northern California

»Die Deutschen zerstörten ein Paradies – und behaupten bis heute das Gegenteil«

Joe Quigg – Father of the Modern Surfboard

We Are One Ocean

The San Onofre Book

Want To Know About Google’s Anti-competitive Behavior? Just Ask Yelp.

A thousand teardrops: how doo-wop kickstarted Jamaica’s pop revolution

John Muir in Native America

The Anti-Colonial Revolution

The Real-Life Gidget Looks Back From 80: “I Lived It All”

The History of Female Surfing: a Legacy of Hawaiian Medicine Women, Royalty, Goddesses and More

A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future

You Can Now Stay in a Floating Tiki House Off the Florida Keys

Sincron 8 Minute De Vis

Deluged by floods, America’s ‘oldest city’ struggles to save landmarks from climate crisis

This Man Has Spent Quarantine Making Ridiculously Meticulous Miniatures of L.A. Landmarks

Honolulu 1954

A Tale Of Two Ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify And The Wide-Open Future

Surf Film Filmography

While Hollywood Had the Sunset Strip, East L.A. Had the ‘Latin Strip’

Stan Ross Larry Levine Interview 1988

Meet the Melanasians: Black People with Naturally Blonde Hair

Was Music City L.A.’s Greatest Record Store?

Music Of The Magindanao In The Philippines

GM and Ford Knew, Too: Reporting Reveals Auto Giants Recognized Looming Climate Crisis in 1960s—and Helped Bury Reality

Red Rover: 1957

Duke’s Ulcers: How Surfing’s Most Popular Icon Dealt with White Supremacy

Sir Lancelot – The Defenders of Stalingrad [Trinidad, Calypso] (1940s)

The Lesser-Known History of African-American Cowboys

One marine animal causes more death and serious injuries than sharks, sea snakes, and stingrays combined

Ski Nomad: 1959

strobeck effect

Not waving, drowning . . .

Bali’s beaches buried in tide of plastic rubbish during monsoon season

Pan American World Airways Travel Posters

Most of these are about Pacific Ocean Park.

Movie: Night Tide at NWR (Santa Monica Pier)

Photos: Remembering Pacific Ocean Park

Movie segement: Pacific Ocean Park scene from Herman’s Hermits 1966 comedy movie “Hold On!”

TV segment: Lost Los Angeles “The Invaders” Pacific Ocean Park 1968 Classic Television

10 photos from L.A.’s long-gone Pacific Ocean Park, a day out by the sea you’ll never enjoy

Presentation: Throwback Thursdays – Pacific Ocean Park Pier / Presented by Christopher Merritt & Domenic Priore

Music video: Nancy Sinatra Who Will Buy

Vintage documentary: Part 1 – Santa Monica and Pacific Ocean Park (1959)

Home movies: Baby Boomers Tribute “Let Me Live Again” Pacific Ocean Park 1958-1967 So Cal Santa Monica

Ronnie Jay and Friends – P.O.P. Pier mid 1970s

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Four Abandoned SoCal Amusement Parks With Creepy Pasts

Enchanted Village

Here’s a trailer for the upcoming documentary Dana Brown made about his father Bruce:

Interview with Dana Brown

P.F. Sloan: Let’s Live for Today

Seafood fraud: why your Mediterranean swordfish might actually be shark

Keystone XL Pipeline Stays Blocked in U.S. Supreme Court Order

The Celestial Sounds of The Space Agency

David Stone Martin & Mary Lou Williams

Our World: Summer 1963 (1987)

The Tongan Castaways of Ata Island | Surviving with one of the six boys

Canada: DNA discovery lends weight to First Nations ancestral story

must we burn the single blade

California’s Indigenous History Is a Story of Genocide and Resistance

The Fender Jazzmaster

“Spooky Boy” – Mathieu Maréchal with Dusty Springfield. Vid by Thomas Lodin