The fabled 2,448-mile highway from Chicago to Santa Monica is established in 1926. It doesn’t receive signs until 1927 and isn’t completely paved until 1938.…
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Stories about the lives and landscapes of California
Nearly 50 years after the 30-second “O.K. Corral” gunfight on October 26, 1881, Tombstone Arizona’s most famous lawman cashes in. He’s 80. One year after…
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That’s what Timothy Leary exhorts the crowd at the Human Be-In, a protest of sorts over a new law signed in October 1966 by Gov.…
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At 10:45 a.m., January 28, 1969, 5.8 miles off the coast of Summerland in Santa Barbara County, workers on Union Oil’s drilling Platform A create California’s…
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What’s supposed to be the West Coast’s Woodstock attracts 300,000 to the Altamont Speedway between Tracy and Livermore in the Bay Area on December 6,…
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While making his morning inspection of the sawmill he is building with John Sutter near the Maidu Indian village of Cullumah — now Coloma —…
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Eager to control their professional destiny and pocket more of their profits, Hollywood box office icons Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin join with…
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After 11 years, seven months and five days, the town of Yerba Buena on the northeastern corner of the San Francisco Peninsula is no more.…
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That’s what quarterback Joe Montana says to tackle Harris Barton in the huddle in Super Bowl XXIII with 3:20 minutes left on the clock and…
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On January 21, 1867, San Francisco Police Officer Armand Barbier rashly arrests Joshua Norton, self-proclaimed “Emperor of these United States” and “Protector of Mexico,” on charges…
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