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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Mondragon Cooperative Part One

Dave Bunker Solo on the “Touch Guitar”

Indigenous Americans had contact with Polynesians 800 years ago, DNA reveals

Carol Kaye: the Boss of the Bass Guitar

Exotic Aquatic Dances – Thedonizetti

The Human Error Darwin Inspired

American Bandstand – November 11, 1967 – Full Episode

I’m Living Through the Apocalyptic Vibes on the U.S. West Coast

Maker’s Marks: How a Mysterious Phone Call Led To the Discovery of Ray Butts’ Pickup-tester Guitar

Shark Patrol 1964 Music also used in The Endless Summer

How a lost surfboard floated from Hawaii to the Philippines

Max Crook (Del Shannon’s keyboard player on Runaway)

2020 Virtual Lecture Series
Thursday September 24th at 6:30pm
with Domenic Priore

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

Interview with Dana Brown

Friday Announcement (for Tuesday): Becky Ebenkamp and I have been working really hard on what is definitely a first for us, a one-off documentary radio show sponsored by L.A.’s Metro rail for Dublab.com. The subject, based on my book “Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Last Stand in Hollywood” will focus on four clubs: It’s Boss, The Hullabaloo, Bido Lito’s and Pandora’s Box. Our special guests are Johnny Echols of the band Love, and Miss Pamela DeBarres, author of several books including “I’m With The Band: Confessions of a Groupie.” The social impact brought on by the Sunset Strip “riots,” both the immediate repercussions during the ’60s (Monterey Pop) and in the future (from the ’90s to now) will also be examined. Tune in, this coming Tuesday, and share with your friends.

– Domenic Priore

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

Her four-part series begins July 5 ($10/class).

Toni Basil to teach classes on ’60s go-go dancing

Miners out, Covid out.

Ritratti Di Surf | Ale Ponzanelli & Matt Calvani

Spectacular bootleg of the 1964 World Titles at Manly

Boomers: You can still be heroes in the story of climate change

“Prince” Danny Bearer ~ RIP (2009)

The law that helped the internet flourish now undermines democracy | John Naughton

Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it’s gone

Waving not drowning: the street children finding refuge in Durban’s surf scene