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Professional ratings. Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965–1968 is the fifth box set in Rhino Records ' Nuggets series, released September 22, 2009. The set's four discs each focus on a different aspect of the underground rock music scene in and around Los Angeles at the end of the 1960s. The first disc, "On the Strip", features ...
San Pedro, Los Angeles [3] Jason McRoy: August 24, 1995: 23 British Downhill mountain bike rider: Harley Davidson: A628, Derbyshire [nb 1] [4] Pete Conrad: July 8, 1999: 69 American Third person to walk on the Moon: 1996 Harley-Davidson: Ojai, California [nb 2] [5] [6] Norifumi Abe: October 7, 2007: 32 Japan Motorcycle racer Yamaha XP 500 TMAX ...
Mulholland Drive is a street and road in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California. It is named after pioneering Los Angeles civil engineer William Mulholland. The western rural portion in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties is named Mulholland Highway. The road is featured in a significant number of films, songs, and novels.
Lance Edward Armstrong (né Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) [4] is an American former professional road racing cyclist.He achieved international fame for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of his titles after an investigation into doping allegations, called the Lance Armstrong doping case, found that Armstrong used performance ...
Ascot Park, first named Los Angeles Speedway and later New Ascot Stadium, was a dirt racetrack located near Gardena, California. Ascot Park was open between 1957 and 1990. The track held numerous United States Auto Club (USAC) national tour races and three NASCAR Grand National (now NASCAR Cup Series) races. The Turkey Night Grand Prix was held ...
The Los Angeles River ( Spanish: Río de Los Ángeles ), historically known as Paayme Paxaayt 'West River' by the Tongva and the Río Porciúncula 'Porciúncula River' by the Spanish, is a major river in Los Angeles County, California. Its headwaters are in the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains, and it flows nearly 51 miles (82 km) from ...
The Marvin Braude Bike Trail (also known as the Beach Bike Path, [1] Coastal Bike Trail [1], The Strand, or the South Bay Bicycle Trail [2]) is a 22-mile (35 km) paved bicycle path that runs mostly along the shoreline of Santa Monica Bay in Los Angeles County, California. [3] [4] The coastal bike trail is widely acknowledged as Los Angeles ...
Midnight Ridazz is rooted in a punk ethos. It was partly the aim of the original riders and organizers to challenge both the dominant means of transportation and the prevailing mode of entertainment in Los Angeles, a city largely designed around the private automobile and one in which weekend entertainment is widely assumed to involve some kind ...