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In the 1940s, Nick Gabaldón, an athletic, handsome student at Santa Monica High School, would often escape class to Bay Street Beach, a half-mile stretch of shoreline roughly between Pico and Bicknell Streets, by the Casa Del Mar hotel. Derisively called "the Inkwell" by some white Angelenos, Bay Street Beach was a haven for people of color. Here, Gabaldón would bodysurf for hours, impressing two white lifeguards who loaned him a rescue board. With this heavy, 13-foot board, Gabaldón taught himself to surf, becoming the first documented Black surfer in America. He eventually took to riding...

Rebecca ‘Becky’ Lum Oct. 19, 1930 — Nov. 23, 2020 Rebecca ‘Becky’ Lum, 90, passed away peacefully on Nov. 23, 2020, in Vacaville, California. Becky was born Oct. 19, 1930, to Harry and Lillie Lum in San Francisco, California, where she lived from childhood through college. She attended Francisco Junior High School and Polytechnic High School. Becky was naturally athletic and enjoyed badminton, ping-pong and tennis, even earning medals in city championships when competing on a Chinese girls’ basketball team. Becky majored in science at the City College of San Francisco and later Sa...

According to the history , the first Jewish settlers arrived in the tiny, Wild West pueblo of Los Angeles in the late 1840s. In 1851 (the year after California became an American state), census workers recorded eight Jewish citizens in Los Angeles, a town of roughly 1,600 souls. “All of them were bachelors who lived in their stores on the ground floor of the city’s lead commercial building, a two-story structure located at the southeast corner of Aliso and Los Angeles Streets,” writes historian William M. Kramer. The men were not single for long, and soon the Jewish population rose to ...