Interplay of environmental and social factors at the rise of professional skateboarding. A) First covers of the Skateboarder journal from October 1965 when pools were still filled with water, and ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California house where Steve Jobs co-founded Apple is a historical site, and now the sandals he wore while pacing its floors have been sold for nearly $220,000, according to an ...

LOS ANGELES -- In the same way it's easy to forget about all the wild sex that may or may not have been had in Southern California in the 1970s, it's easy to forget that there ever was a Oui magazine.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fugitive radical turned Minnesota soccer mom Sara Jane Olson was released on Tuesday from a California prison, where she served nearly seven years for a pair of crimes ...

The 74-year-old Newark native who has been charged in the 1970s cold-case murders of Stanford University graduate Leslie Marie Perlov and Palo-Alto-area resident Janet Ann Taylor, both 21, has been a ...

Why did professional skateboarding arise in southern California in the 1970s? Was it a coincidence, or was it a perfect storm of multiple factors? It's fairly well-known that a drought in southern ...