Controlling supply was/is a hobby? Link to Barn Finds’ Collections category

Video interview with artist Robert Williams.

More about Abstract Expressionism:
How the CIA Spent Secret Millions Turning Modern Art Into a Cold War Arsenal

Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’

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

Surfer, Playboy, Explorer, Entrepreneur, and Visionary

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

In 1911 the last member of the Yahi people appeared in Oroville, California

Béla Lugosi

Shirley Craven – From Hull to Hull Traders

“Jersey” – with Smokin’ Joe Davies

A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector

A Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executives’ Private Views on Climate Change

The Gatemen

Fragile Planet: documenting the impact of the climate crisis – in pictures

Ruben Salazar: the Making of the Myth

Los Shains – Misirlou

Evidence of human occupation in Mexico around the Last Glacial Maximum

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

related:

Four Abandoned SoCal Amusement Parks With Creepy Pasts

Enchanted Village

The plastic we use unthinkingly every day is killing our planet – and slowly but surely killing us

Wandrè – L’artista della chitarra elettrica

Short Series Co. Ft Dylan Cox__long Version

The Roots Of Ska: From Tennessee, Through Jamaica To The Best of British

The Big Green Lie

Chongolio

Transforming Vintage Cars to Electric

Permalink Hank B. Marvin interview – July 23, 2019 (NAMM.org – Oral Histories series)

Water

High on a Cool Wave (1968)

Brilliant Corners: Papua New Guinea, Chapter One