Photo: SDASM Archives

Howard Hughes was an aviator, engineer, movie producer, entrepreneur, and one of the most successful businessmen that the country has ever seen. During his life, he was known as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. This financial success helped build the areas ...

Photo Credit: Joey Mink

Muscle Beach was established on the beach area south of the Santa Monica Pier in 1933 as a part of a beachfront movement of gymnasts, acrobats and many other athletes who joined together on a small section of the Santa Monica coastline. It was established ...

Marina del Rey Peninsula has a colorful history; it just doesn’t venture back that far. Only 50,000 years ago Marina Peninsula was completely underwater.

Lowering sea levels exposed a tidal marsh fed by the Ballona Creek, which was then settled upon by natives about 3-5 thousand years ago ...

Who would have thought waterless pools and imagination would have lead to an entire cultural revolution? 

Innovative places like Dogtown thrive on cultural diversity of the artistic and the technical, but in the case of Dogtown, constraint also drove invention. “In important ways, the rise of skateboard culture in ...