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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 ...

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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 ...

Sometimes it is easy to forget that the places we visit daily were once nothing but water, tress, and dirt. Marina Del Rey is one of the most populated and built up waterways in Southern California. Today there is little left of the natural wetlands that used to span from ...

Venice, California was a beach resort town founded by the tobacco millionaire Abbot Kinney in 1905. The entrepreneur and dreamer won the land in a coin toss and quickly hit upon a brilliant marketing strategy to replicate Venice, Italy. 

The canals were built on what were then the Southern ...