Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 11:34PM Produced by Jim Albritton | Paragliding at Torrey Pines in San Diego never disappoints. Here's 11 minutes of a recent 25-minute flight over cliffs, beaches and million dollar homes that make the world-famous gliderport a destination that must be experienced.
Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 11:33PM The Torrey Pines Gliderport is a city-owned private-use glider airport located 11 miles northwest of the San Diego CBD on the Pacific coast. It was established as a soaring site in 1930 and is the home to hang gliding, paragliding, radio-controlled model sailplanes, and full-scale man-carrying sailplanes. It is considered by glider enthusiasts of all types to be the "Kitty Hawk of the West." Click here to see our Torrey Pines Gliderport photos and click here to see all our photo albums.
Flight, Torrey Pines Gliderport in California, Flight, San Diego, Travel Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 11:33PM The tide pools at the Cabrillo National Monument on the southern tip of the Point Loma Peninsula in San Diego are home to one of the most unique marine ecosystems in southern California. Click here to see our Point Loma tide pool photos and click here to see all our photo albums.
Point Loma Tide Pools in California, San Diego, Travel Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 11:33PM Cabrillo National Monument is located at the southern tip of the Point Loma Peninsula in San Diego. It commemorates the landing of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo at San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542. This event marked the first time that a European expedition had set foot on what later became the West Coast of the United States.
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Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 11:33PM San Diego's two-mile long Mission Beach is on a sandbar between the Pacific Ocean and Mission Bay.
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Mission Beach in California, San Diego, Travel Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 12:26AM Produced by Jim Albritton | There are all kinds of pilgrimages. For me, it was the Malibu beach where the ending of the original 1968 Planet of the Apes was shot.
Planet of the Apes in California, LA Road Trip, Movie Making, Movies, Travel Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 2:04AM Produced by Jim Albritton | From the Hollywood sign to the Santa Monica Pier and points in between, Newsocracy's LA Road Trip takes you there.
LA Road Trip, LA Story in California, Celebrities, Hollywood, LA Road Trip, Movie Making, Movies, Music, Trains, Travel Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 2:06AM SOLDIER ON | The General George S. Patton Memorial Museum was established to honor the late general and the thousands of men who served with him at the Desert Training Center and overseas. The museum is located in California off Interstate 10, about 30 miles east of Indio at Chiriaco Summit, which was the entrance to Camp Young, command post for the DTC during World War II. The site was donated by Joseph Chiriaco, one of the first area residents General Patton met when he arrived to set up the center.

Exhibits display memorabilia from the life and career of General Patton. The exhibit halls include the many and varied aspects of military life with particular focus on the Desert Training Center and soldiers of World War II.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 1:28AM END OF THE ROAD | The world-famous Santa Monica Pier is a prominent 100-year-old landmark that has seen its share of tourists, anglers and directors. The pier can be seen in numerous TV shows and movies, including Forrest Gump. And yes, there is a Bubba Gump Shrimp Company restaurant on the pier. It's owned by the company that produced the film.
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Santa Monica Pier in California, LA Road Trip, Travel Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 1:18AM
TMZ: We Love Hollywood, We Just Have a Funny Way of Showing It | The TMZ Tour, "a lighthearted and entertaining look at the world of celebrity gossip," winds its way through Hollywood streets and scandals, using video, photos and pop trivia quizzes to breathe life back into the half-century-old movie star home tour.
TMZ Tour in California, Celebrities, Hollywood, LA Road Trip, Travel Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 1:11AM The La Brea Tar Pits (or Rancho La Brea Tar Pits) are a group of tar pits around which Hancock Park was formed, in urban Los Angeles. Asphaltum or tar (brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground in this area for tens of thousands of years. The tar is often covered with dust, leaves, or water. Over many centuries, the bones of animals that were trapped in the tar were preserved. The George C. Page Museum is dedicated to researching the tar pits and displaying specimens from the animals that died there. The La Brea Tar Pits are a registered National Natural Landmark.
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La Brea Tar Pits, Page Museum in California, Hollywood, LA Road Trip, Travel Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 1:11AM TCL Chinese Theatre (formerly Grauman's Chinese Theatre and later Mann's Chinese Theatre) is a movie theater on the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard. The theater was renamed in January 2013 when the TCL Corporation, a Chinese electronics company, purchased the naming rights for over $5 million.
Built over 18 months, from January 1926 by a partnership headed by Sid Grauman, the theater opened May 18, 1927, with the premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's film The King of Kings. It has since been home to many premieres, including the 1977 launch of George Lucas's Star Wars, as well as birthday parties, corporate junkets and three Academy Awards ceremonies. Among the theater's most distinctive features are the concrete blocks set in the forecourt, which bear the signatures, footprints, and handprints of popular motion picture personalities from the 1920s to the present day.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 12:55AM BIG BOY BOB | Bob's Big Boy in Burbank is an example of the emerging California coffee shop style that exploded in Los Angeles in the 1950s and a point of historical interest in California. Built in 1949, the structure is related to World Fair pavilions of the pre-war period by its long, low, horizontal roof line and wide canopies. Its asymmetrical shape alternates from sharp angles at the entrance to smooth, inward curving picture windows facing the street. Certainly the building's most striking aspect is the monumental freestanding Bob's sign which soars vertically 70 feet and its trademark chubby boy in red-and-white checkered overalls holding a Big Boy sandwich (double-decker cheeseburger). Johnny Carson frequently mentioned Bob's Big Boy on the Tonight Show and the Beatles ate there during their 1965 US Tour.
Bob's Big Boy, Burbank, restaurant in California, LA Road Trip, Travel Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 2:49AM HIKING HOLLYWOOD | For us, few things in all of LA can top hiking Mt. Hollywood between the Griffith Observatory and the Hollywood sign. And to prove how much we like it, here are more than 100 photos of our time on the trails.
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Hiking, Hollywood in California, Hollywood, LA Road Trip, Travel Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 2:42AM HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS | A nighttime look at Hollywood from Hollywood Boulevard and from high atop Mt. Hollywood and the Loews Hotel at the Hollywood and Highland Center.
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Hollywood Nights in California, Hollywood, LA Road Trip, Travel 
