“There’s only the American Dream and the California dream.”
—Gov. Gavin Newsom
CAL@170 is a collection of 170 stories celebrating California’s 170 years of statehood. The aim is to offer examples of California’s unique character and that of its residents, past and present. That means among the good there will be some bad. For every success story, there’s a failure, a tragedy, an injustice. It’s from these mistakes that we learn and grow stronger together. Share a story with us that helps define what California means to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNrNs1KpN6c In 1890, the Pasadena Valley Hunt Club draws 2,000 locals for an event it sponsors to promote the city’s…
Using a Chinese-made Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, 24-year-old Patrick Edward Purdy kills five children and wounds 29 other students and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGB4eDT6TrE At a McDonald’s franchise in Goleta, a breakfast sandwich – egg, cheese, Canadian bacon on a toasted English muffin…
Views of redwood trees in Muir Woods; shows paths and roads through the trees. Photo by…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2nLieCOCxI The fabled 2,448-mile highway from Chicago to Santa Monica is established in 1926. It doesn’t receive signs until 1927…
Growing up in Long Beach, Billie Jean King saves $8.29 in a Mason jar to buy her first tennis racquet,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WouOr579mfY&feature=youtu.be That’s what Timothy Leary exhorts the crowd at the Human Be-In, a protest of sorts over a new law…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF-jHJBxcIs At 10:45 a.m., January 28, 1969, 5.8 miles off the coast of Summerland in Santa Barbara County, workers on Union…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWoPuVSbY0 On a chilly, wet January 8, 1863, invited dignitaries and passers-by gather at K and Front Streets in what’s…