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

The First Wave in Bali: An Unexpected Tale of Infidelity, Adventure, and Entrepreneurism

Tales of love and loss: people from Oceania share their ‘extinction stories’

Carbon Pricing

Fluctus Splitters Trailer #1

The greatest electronic albums of the 1950s and 1960s

The Spillway, Victoria, Australia. The Ultimate Flex Machine (dir. Jason Cameron, 1975).

9’9 Chop OP at Lafitenia with Myles Doughman

Fifties Fun

www.brightonbeachsurfshop.com

“A Dance With Plants” – balmy Costa Rica

How The Surfaris Wrote Wipe Out

Time to ditch the harmful myth of the ‘noble’ hunter-gatherer

Kindheit auf St. Pauli Sechziger

“the Yanks” Down Under – Original Footage From the Visit That Changed Australian Surfing Forever.
Service in the Sun (1957)

A Short Vision: Ed Sullivan’s Atomic Show Stopper

Plan to Release Radioactive Fukushima Wastewater Into Pacific Ocean Panned by Critics

Salvemos Punta Conejo

U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weren’t Built for Climate Change

Happy Birthday, Los Angeles! But is the Story of the City’s Founding a Myth?

Apologies for bringing scary news, but here’s the latest on Greenland’s melting ice

San Onofre and Malibu in 1950 surfing time

Rebellion and rock ‘n’ roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s

The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered Once It’s Gone

The Archivist: You Crazy Diamonds

Ocean Initiatives, a Success in Spite of Us