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.

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.

California State Route 61 runs down city streets from the Posey and Webster Street Tubes, across the Bay Farm Island Bridge, and south to the Oakland Airport.

There was also a music video where a man runs on fire in slow motion (" California " by Wax ).

A notorious segment of the Hayward Fault runs lengthwise down the middle of Memorial Stadium at the mouth of Strawberry Canyon on the University of California campus.

* Columbus Avenue ( San Francisco ), a diagonal street that runs through the North Beach and Chinatown areas of San Francisco, California

The grinding action of these two plates creates a fault ( similar to the San Andreas fault in California ) that runs the length of the valley of the Rio Motagua in Guatemala.

* The Sierra de la Giganta runs along the shore of the Gulf of California south of the Tres Virgenes complex.

Onshore southeast of the bay is the Desierto de Vizcaino, an extensive desert lying between the Sierra Vizcaino to the west, and the Tres Virgenes range which runs along the Gulf of California to the east.

On September 14, the pair hit back-to-back home runs in the top of the first off California Angels pitcher Kirk McCaskill, becoming the first father-son duo to hit back-to-back home runs.

The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that runs a length of roughly through California in the United States.

The school also runs exchange programmes with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Fuqua School of Business, Kellogg School of Management, Stern School of Business and Yale School of Management as part of its MSc in International Management and an undergraduate student exchange programme with the University of California, Berkeley in Political Science.

U. S. Route 101, or U. S. Highway 101, is a north – south U. S. highway that runs through the states of California, Oregon, and Washington, on the West Coast of the United States.

Since highway 84 is a split route, the southern segment of state route 84 runs from Livermore in Alameda County and eventually ends at California Highway 1 in San Gregorio, a coastal community located in San Mateo County.

It was named after the boulevard that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California.

The most popular way is by train, as the Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico or ChePe, runs along the main canyon called Canyon Urique, between Chihuahua and Los Mochis, on the Gulf of California.

She lives in Carmel, California with her husband, Joey, and runs a modeling agency.

In 1983, Puckett was promoted to the Single-A Visalia Oaks in the California League and although his average was not as high as the previous year — he still hit an impressive. 318, with 9 home runs, 97 RBI, and 48 stolen bases over 138 games — and continued to turn heads in the organization.

The city is on the Burlington Northern Railroad Southern Transcon route which runs between Los Angeles, California, and Chicago, Illinois.

Wells Fargo Bank, one of the major banks in California, periodically runs television commercials set in late 19th-century California and featuring their trademark stage coach.

Wasco is located on the floor of the San Joaquin Valley, at the intersection of California State Routes 43, which runs north-south, and 46, which runs east-west.

California State Route 1 ( also known as Shoreline Highway and the Pacific Coast Highway ) runs through the Valley and is the road most often used to access western Marin County.

Major transportation corridors include County Line Road ( runs east-west from the freeway ), Sandalwood Drive ( runs east-west from the freeway ), Singleton Road ( runs east-west from the freeway ), Cherry Valley Boulevard ( runs east-west from the freeway ), Avenue " L " ( runs east-west from the freeway ) Myrtlewood Drive ( runs east-west from Calimesa Boulevard to California Street ) Calimesa Boulevard ( runs north-south, parallels freeway from Live Oak Canyon Road in Yucaipa to Cherry Valley Boulevard near Beaumont ), and Bryant Street ( runs north-south from Highway 38 / Mill Creek Road / Mentone Boulevard and connects with Singleton Road ).

In addition, the 1952 study collected comparable data from 4,585 students at ten other colleges and universities scattered across the country: Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, North Carolina, Fisk, Texas, University of California at Los Angeles, Wayne, and Michigan.

Since moving from a Chicago suburb to Southern California a few months ago, I've been introduced to a new game called Lanesmanship.

The Attorney General of California concurs in this interpretation and has filed an appeal from these decisions to the District Court of Appeal.

Within about an hour with the help of reports from seismic stations in Alaska, Arizona and California, the quake's epicenter was placed at 51 degrees North latitude and 158 degrees East longitude.

Nick recalled stories that the two best fishing spots in Southern California were over the La Jolla Deep and the Redondo Deep, two spots where the ocean dropped off to fantastic depths almost from the shoreline.

In private life, Miss Garson is Mrs. E. E. Fogelson and on the go most of the time commuting from Dallas, where they maintain an apartment, to their California home in Los Angeles' suburban Bel-Air to their ranch in Pecos, New Mexico.

Dwan operated Flying A Studios in La Mesa, California from August, 1911 to July, 1912.

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Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.

The Iridescence | iridescent inside surface of a red abalone shell from Northern California.

* 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.

* 1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

* 1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

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* 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011.

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The aircraft involved, a Boeing 757-223, was flying American Airlines ' daily scheduled morning transcontinental service from Washington Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California.

* Interview with the Apollo 16 Astronauts ( 28 June 1972 ) from the Commonwealth Club of California Records at the Hoover Institution Archives.

* A Static Lullaby, a post-hardcore band from in Chino Hills, California, United States of America

With a large number of people relocating to the state from the Midwest and the Northeast, as well as from California, many teams ( most notably the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers ) have normally had large followings in Arizona.