Imagineering My Way Podcast

Imagineering My Way Podcast

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  • Flags at the Huntington Beach Beach Pier [Flickr]

    Greg Nutt posted a photo:

    Measuring 1,850 feet in length, the iconic Huntington Beach Pier is one of the longest piers on the West Coast. Jutting out into the Pacific Ocean at the intersection of Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway, it symbolizes the heart of Huntington Beach and is the most photographed spot in town. The pier and the city came into existence together in 1904, and thanks to historic surfing demonstrations by legendary Hawaiian watermen George Freeth and Duke Kahanamoku, this landmark is an integral part of Huntington Beach surfing lore. Rebuilt after two storms in the 1980s, the pier is all about simple pleasures.

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  • Surfing in HB - Surf City [Flickr]

    Greg Nutt posted a photo:

    In 1925, Duke Kahanamoku brought the sport of surfing to Huntington Beach and the Southern California shores. The city’s first surf shop, Gordie’s Surf Boards, opened in 1953. Six years later, the first U.S. Surfing Championships were held in Huntington Beach. The following year, the Surfing Championships were covered on television, which rocketed Huntington Beach’s international fame as a surfer’s paradise. In 2005, the USA Surf Team adopted Huntington Beach as its official home and the Association of Surfing Professionals-North America moved to the city.

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  • Surf! [Flickr]

    Greg Nutt posted a photo:

    In 1925, Duke Kahanamoku brought the sport of surfing to Huntington Beach and the Southern California shores. The city’s first surf shop, Gordie’s Surf Boards, opened in 1953. Six years later, the first U.S. Surfing Championships were held in Huntington Beach. The following year, the Surfing Championships were covered on television, which rocketed Huntington Beach’s international fame as a surfer’s paradise. In 2005, the USA Surf Team adopted Huntington Beach as its official home and the Association of Surfing Professionals-North America moved to the city.

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  • Falling Water [Flickr]

    Greg Nutt posted a photo:

    Fallingwater or the Kaufmann Residence is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 43 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. The house was designed as a weekend home for the family of Liliane Kaufmann and her husband, Edgar J. Kaufmann, owner of Kaufmann's department store.


    Time cited it after its completion as Wright's "most beautiful job"; it is listed among Smithsonian's Life List of 28 places "to visit before you die". It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects named the house the "best all-time work of American architecture" and in 2007, it was ranked 29th on the list of America's Favorite Architecture according to the AIA.

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  • Star of India [Flickr]

    Greg Nutt posted a photo:

    Star of India was built in 1863 at Ramsey in the Isle of Man as Euterpe, a full-rigged iron windjammer ship. After a full career sailing from Great Britain to India and New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska to California route. Retired in 1926, she was not restored until 1962–63 and is now a seaworthy museum ship home-ported at the Maritime Museum of San Diego in San Diego, California. She is the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still floating. The ship is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National Historic Landmark.

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  • Mz Stella (Eliza Bayne) & LaLa (Lara Doucette) [Flickr]

    Greg Nutt posted a photo:

    DVD Release Party - December 4, 2008 @ The Tonga Hut in North Hollywood, CA


    Editorial Review for Tonga Hut – by Mar Yvette - Citysearch.com

    In Short
    Originally opened in 1959, the Tonga Hut is one of an ever-dwindling number of holdouts from the tiki/Polynesian era. Holding the title of L.A.'s oldest running tiki bar, the NoHo hangout exchanged ownership in 2005 and has since stepped up the experience while maintaining the original charm. Among the giant tiki gods and garden of kitschy delights, the space features a kidney-shaped drop ceiling, hexagon-shaped bar and waterfall--with a model of an outrigger canoe, naturally. The regulars seem to think of this beloved dive as just a neighborhood bar, not a celebration of all things tiki, but we know better.

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