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Southland area high-schoolers, in the 1960s, create the musical folk idiom known as surf rock.

Joe Quigg's "easy rider" girl's board becomes the model for the modern, mid-century longboard.

Los Angeles takes first place as the wildest of the wild and woolly frontier towns of the old west.

With her book, Ramona, Helen Hunt Jackson jumpstarts Southern California's early tourist industry.

Southern California's underwear makers re-dress the world.

With one long flight, Charles Lindbergh made the world a little bit smaller.

The Corvette, America's flagship sports car, fails to meet performance expectations when first introduced.

The night the Beatles conquered the world

Bruce Brown creates the most influential surf film of all time.