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During World War II, three renowned photographers captured scenes from the Japanese incarceration: outsiders Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams and incarceree Tōyō Miyatake who boldly smuggled in a camera lens to document life from within the camp.
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Griffith Park is one of the largest municipal parks in the United States. Its founder, Griffith J. Griffith, donated the land to the city as a public recreation ground for all the people — an ideal that has been challenged over the years.
The first surfboards were made from woods that were heavy and unwieldy, so creating modern ones required trial and error and technological innovation.
Walt Disney envisioned Disneyland in 1955 as a place where audiences could step into their favorite movies. Who would build such a place and fill it with things people could interact with? The imagineer.
Take set designers working on bombastic backdrops for Hollywood and the architects of homes for celebrities, put them in the same city and L.A.'s architecture is what you get.
The Universal Studios tour has a history that goes back longer than one would imagine.
Lawrence Lipton’s poetry also gives us a glimpse into the Venice that Orson Welles knew and filmed in "Touch of Evil."
The vision of Abbot Kinney was inclusive, collaborating with the African American community in the creation of Venice of America.
The kind of dreams that Curtis Howe Springer peddled were tied to health and prosperity, but it didn't take long before "the last of the old medicine men" brought Zzyzx to ruins.
Such was the case for William S. Bodie, who founded the ghost town we know today as Bodie. Though Bodie himself never lived to see its prosperity, several of its structures from its heyday still stand as a monument to the power of dreams and the hope for
Learn more about California surfing's early days with Duke Kahanamoku and George Freeth, the technological advances of the surfboard and how the concept of lifeguarding contributed to having fun in the sun as we know it today.
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"The Endless Summer" is the embodiment of the California Dream, giving a valid reinterpretation to surf culture from careless teen beach parties to seasoned pro athletes — with a heavy helping of the California sun.