Skateboarders, most notably Ty Page, Bruce Logan, Bobby Piercy, Kevin Reed, and the Z-Boys ( so-called because of their local Zephyr surf shop ) started to skate the vertical walls of swimming pools that were left empty in the 1976 California drought.

* March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western, and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.

Amtrak's California Zephyr, a daily passenger service from Emeryville, California ( San Francisco Bay Area ) to Chicago, uses the First Transcontinental Railroad from Sacramento to central Nevada.

Because this rail line currently operates in a directional running setup across most of Nevada, the California Zephyr will switch to the Central Corridor at either Winnemucca or Wells.

The California Zephyr pulled by D & RGW locomotives along the Colorado River in Western Colorado.

The D & RGW's sense of its unique geographical challenge found expression in what is arguably the world's most famous passenger train, the California Zephyr, which was jointly operated with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ( CB & Q ) from Chicago to Denver and the Western Pacific Railroad from Salt Lake City to Oakland, California ( with ferry and bus connections to San Francisco ).

Unable to compete with the Union Pacific's faster, less mountainous route and 39-hour schedules, the California Zephyr offered a more leisurely journey – a " rail cruise " – with ample vistas of the Rockies.

Although the California Zephyr ran at full capacity and turned a modest profit from its 1949 inception through the late 1950s, by the mid-1960s the train was profitable only during the late spring, summer, and fall.

California Zephyr headed by D & RGW locomotives passes through the Colorado Rockies in winter.

D & RGW locomotive on the next to last run of the California Zephyr, March 21, 1970, at Salt Lake City.

Much of this line is currently used by the California Zephyr, although some parts were rerouted or abandoned.

After the war, railroads rejuvenated overworked and neglected fleets with fast and often luxurious streamliners – epitomized by the Super Chief and California Zephyr – which inspired the last major resurgence in passenger rail travel.

Amtrak's California Zephyr and Coast Starlight also pass through Dixon without stopping.

Amtrak's passenger train, the California Zephyr goes through Lyon County.

The California Zephyr runs from the San Francisco Bay Area to Chicago via Salt Lake City, Denver and Omaha.

California Zephyr railcar at the Maricopa, AZ Amtrak stationMaricopa is currently the closest stop from Phoenix on Amtrak's Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle trains.

Amtrak Train 5, the westbound California Zephyr, is scheduled to depart Colfax at 12: 26pm daily with service to Roseville, Sacramento, Davis, Martinez, and Emeryville across the bay from San Francisco.

Amtrak Train 6, the eastbound California Zephyr, is scheduled to depart Colfax at 12: 26pm daily with service to Truckee, Reno, Sparks, Winnemucca, Elko, Salt Lake City, Provo, Helper, Green River, Grand Junction, Glenwood Springs, Denver, Omaha, Galesburg, and Chicago.

Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Galesburg, operating the California Zephyr, Carl Sandburg, Illinois Zephyr, and Southwest Chief daily in both directions between Chicago and points west from Galesburg ( Amtrak station ).

Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service through Hastings, operating its California Zephyr daily in each direction between Chicago and Emeryville, California, across the bay from San Francisco.

Person To Person ventilates the home lives of Johnny Mercer and Joan Collins -- both in Southern California ( Channel 5 at 10:30 ) KQED Summer Music Festival features a live concert by the Capello De Musica ( Channel 9 at 8:30 ).

The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California on Friday, 5 May 1972.

Chaparral covers 5 % of the state of California, and associated Mediterranean scrubland an additional 3. 5 %.

On May 5, 1993, Gregory M. Herek, associate research psychologist at the University of California at Davis and an authority on public attitudes toward lesbians and gay men, testified before the House Armed Services Committee on behalf of several professional associations.

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park, located near Escondido, California, is a California State Park which honors the memory of the participants from both the United States and Mexico, including Kit Carson, who contested the Battle of San Pasqual on December 5 – 6, 1846 during the Mexican-American War.

His first marriage to Betty Ebeling began in February 1951 and ended in divorce on January 5, 1967 ; during this time his hobbies included sport fishing off the Baja California coast and duck hunting along the Mexican border near Mexicali.

He died on November 5, 1960 in Woodland Hills, California, aged 80, and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

The Brewers faced the California Angels in the 1982 American League Championship Series and lost the first two games in California, but then rallied to win the next two games back in Milwaukee, setting up the pivotal Game 5, with the winner being the American League Champions.

For example, on 19 May 2011 an earthquake of magnitude 0. 7 in Southern California, USA 4 km deep was classified as of intensity III by the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ), while a 4. 5 magnitude quake in Salta, Argentina 164 km deep was of intensity I.

Approximately 25, 000 Molokans reside in the United States, of which only about 5, 000 " ethnically identify themselves as Molokans "; most of whom reside in California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Wyoming.

Pembroke also works with the University of California, Irvine to host annual 5 week-long University of California Summer Sessions and Japanese universities to provide academic programmes specifically tailored for their students.

Bono died on January 5, 1998 of injuries sustained when he hit a tree while skiing on the Nevada side of Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California.

Seven years later, on June 5, 1981, Little's conviction was overturned by the California Court of Appeal, and he was later acquitted in a retrial in Monterey County.

In a suit brought in 2005 by Spitzer, the California firm Intermix Media, Inc. ended up settling, by agreeing to pay US $ 7. 5 million and to stop distributing spyware.

" In a 5 – 4 decision, the Court, relying on Stromberg v. California,, found that because the provision of the New York law criminalizing " words " against the flag was unconstitutional, and the trial did not sufficiently demonstrate that he was convicted solely under the provisions not yet deemed unconstitutional, the conviction was unconstitutional.

The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960 established that UC select from the top 12. 5 % ( one-eighth ) of graduating high school seniors in California.

* California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives-In the Chicano / Latino Collections

* Bryan R. Wilson, Sects and Society: A Sociological Study of the Elim Tabernacle, Christian Science and Christadelphians ( London: Heinemann, 1961 ; Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961 ).

" There have also been other politicians who did not view the way that Doonesbury portrayed them very favorably, including former U. S. House Speaker Tip O ' Neill and former / current California Governor Jerry Brown.

* Sequoyah School-A child-centered / progressive school for 5-to 14-year-olds in Pasadena, California

* 1964 – U. S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas / Agena combination from Point Arguello ( LC-2-3 ) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.

Factory Records, 4AD Records, and Beggars Banquet Records released much of this music in Europe, while Cleopatra Records among others released the music in the United States, where the subculture grew especially in New York and Los Angeles, California, where many nightclubs featured " gothic / industrial " nights.

Berkeley, California: And / Or Press, 1977.

" Summertime Summertime " b / w " California Lullaby " ( Magic Lamp 401 )-( DT )

Almost all of the of the U. S. federal government / NASA owned property that makes up the JPL campus is today located in the city of La Cañada Flintridge, California, on the northwest border of Pasadena, with a La Cañada Flintridge address ( 4800 Oak Grove Drive, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011 ).

In the 1980s, American and European dancers from California, New York, London and Sweden ( such as Sylvia Sykes, Erin Stevens, Steven Mitchell, Terry Monaghan and Warren Heyes who formed London's Jiving Lindy Hoppers performance troupe, and Stockholm's Rhythm Hot Shots / Harlem Hot Shots ) went about ' reviving ' Lindy Hop using archival films such as Hellzapoppin ' and A Day at the Races and by contacting dancers such as Frankie Manning, Al Minns, Norma Miller, Jewel McGowan and Dean Collins.

READ / Orange County, initiated in 1992 by the Orange County Public Library in California, is an example of a flourishing community literacy program.

Belmont, California: Thomson / Wadsworth.

The band's first release was the single " Stick to Your Guns / Toast of the Town ", which was released on their own record label, Leathür Records, which had a pressing & distribution deal with Greenworld Distribution in Torrance, California.

The Open Sound Control ( OSC ) protocol was developed at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies ( CNMAT ) of the University of California, Berkely, and is supported by software programs such as Reaktor, Max / MSP and Csound, and some newer hardware controllers, including the Lemur Input Device.

The band also released a limited edition blue vinyl 7 " single, " Fuck California ", on C / Z Records.

Construction began on Columbia in 1975 at Rockwell International's ( formerly North American Aviation / North American Rockwell, now Boeing North America ) principal assembly facility in Palmdale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

Endeavour seen at NASA / Ames, on its final flight to California Science Center

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

In March 2008, Sondheim and Rich appeared in four interviews / conversations in California and Portland, Oregon titled " A Little Night Conversation with Stephen Sondheim ".

* Tacos de pescado (" fish tacos ") originated in Baja California in Mexico, where they consist of grilled or fried fish, lettuce or cabbage, pico de gallo, and a sour cream or citrus / mayonnaise sauce, all placed on top of a corn or flour tortilla.

The first modern swim / bike / run event to be called a ' triathlon ' was held at Mission Bay, San Diego, California on September 25, 1974.

McVeigh invited California conductor / composer David Woodard to perform pre-requiem Mass music on the eve of his execution.

In the magazine's " America's Best Hospitals " survey, the UCSF Medical Center ranked best in Northern California – as well as among the best in the nation – in the following specialties: endocrinology, neurology / neurosurgery ; gynecology ; cancer ; kidney disease ; ophthalmology ; respiratory disorders ; rheumatology ; urology ; digestive disorders ; ear, nose, and throat ; psychiatry ; heart and heart surgery ; and pediatrics.

As of 2008, due to the amendment to California Labor Code Section 515. 5 by Bill SB 929, this minimum wage of $ 36 / hour works out to be USD $ 74, 880 per year.