Customers line up at the first McDonald’s hamburger stand at San Bernardino, California in 1948.
Eh, how far they’ve come.
Tag Archives: California
An outstanding, mildly informative, appropriately baked chronicle of the evolution of road surfing by Brazilian animator Antonio Vicentini.
Tonny Hawk.
*sigh*
John Collins writes:
I spotted this car on I-80 just east of Sacramento [California] today and thought of Broadsheet!
So he did go to America.
That’s mad, Ted.
Shane Barry writes:
[Cork late-1990s GAA football top for kids ]. Found in a Thrift store in San Mateo, California…
Damn they’re. good
Meanwhile…
Anything good in the the Francisco Examiner?
This afternoon.
CF writes:
“Everyone Relax. It’s a DIFFERENT Dublin…”
UCI Downhill champion mountain biker Aaron Gwin careens insanely down the hills of Idyllwild California on his Specialized Demo 8 Carbon bike at terrifying speeds for your queasy delectation.
A 20,000-image timelapse jaunt through Disneyland California Adventure in Anaheim by Matt Givot and Dan Douglas aptly set to the sample-tastic strains of Nick ‘Pogo’ Bertke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnfO15cAHE
‘Dreamland’ in south California is the personal ‘backyard skatepark’ of legendary skateboarder Bob Burnquist, featuring a massive ‘megaramp’ with a 4.5m gap leading into a 7.5m high quarterpipe.
https://vimeo.com/70812846
Soaring high and low-level aerial footage of surfers at Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz, California last Sunday captured by Eric Cheng with a GoPro equipped DJI Phantom quadrotor.
Music: May by Marcel Pequel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z37NtqlQvJ4
A fascinating mini-doc by the Grantland Channel exploring how, for the last 18 years, the Compton Cricket Club (aka ‘Homies and the Popz’) has changed lives in Compton, California.
The CCC was founded in 1995 to:
…curb the negative effects of gang activities amongst the youth of Compton, address homelessness in the inner city through the principles and ethics of cricket and encourage and promote civility, good and productive citizenship.
The uncanny cypress trees of Point Lobos, California, covered in red algae and shot by the light of the setting sun by Alan Sailer.