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
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
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
Duke’s Ulcers: How Surfing’s Most Popular Icon Dealt with White Supremacy
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
Music video: Nancy Sinatra Who Will Buy
Vintage documentary: Part 1 – Santa Monica and Pacific Ocean Park (1959)
Ronnie Jay and Friends – P.O.P. Pier mid 1970s
related:
Here’s a trailer for the upcoming documentary Dana Brown made about his father Bruce:
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
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
“Spooky Boy” – Mathieu Maréchal with Dusty Springfield. Vid by Thomas Lodin
https://youtu.be/4p4a69jGifw
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’
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
“A Dance With Plants” – balmy Costa Rica
How The Surfaris Wrote Wipe Out
Time to ditch the harmful myth of the ‘noble’ hunter-gatherer
“the Yanks” Down Under – Original Footage From the Visit That Changed Australian Surfing Forever.
Service in the Sun (1957)
