Rincon Point
Rincon Point is renowned as the Queen of the Coast, one of the premier surfing spots in the world, but that is only a fragment of its rich history. Before the arrival of Europeans, it was a Chumash village called Shuku. In the 19th century, it was part of Rancho El Rincon, whose owners included a rich but illiterate Californio rancher, an English physician who made house calls by bicycle, and a Chilean pharmacist who dispensed drugs out of an old ship's cabin. It was the site of a scandalous love-triangle murder in the 1870s, a rickety highway on stilts in the 1910s, and a raunchy honky-tonk in the 1920s. Banditos, nudists, movie stars, long-boardersthey have all shaped Rincon Point, a place immortalized by novelists, poets, painters, photographers, and the Beach Boys.
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Rincon Point
Rincon Point is renowned as the Queen of the Coast, one of the premier surfing spots in the world, but that is only a fragment of its rich history. Before the arrival of Europeans, it was a Chumash village called Shuku. In the 19th century, it was part of Rancho El Rincon, whose owners included a rich but illiterate Californio rancher, an English physician who made house calls by bicycle, and a Chilean pharmacist who dispensed drugs out of an old ship's cabin. It was the site of a scandalous love-triangle murder in the 1870s, a rickety highway on stilts in the 1910s, and a raunchy honky-tonk in the 1920s. Banditos, nudists, movie stars, long-boardersthey have all shaped Rincon Point, a place immortalized by novelists, poets, painters, photographers, and the Beach Boys.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781467108706 |
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Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing SC |
Publication date: | 10/24/2022 |
Series: | Images of America Series |
Pages: | 128 |
Sales rank: | 1,018,361 |
Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d) |
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