California Pop chronicles the Southland's pop-cultural development from the 15th century, through the 1960s, when the mid-century, Southern California milieu had reached full maturity. It's not an academic treatise; it's just a smooth reading beach book chock full of amusing stories and fun facts about the legions of Southlanders who turned an isolated desert into a pop-cultural dynasty. Here is just a partial list of the notables that appear within the pages of California Pop: Christopher Columbus, The Rolling Stones, George Freeth, Annette Funicello, William Mulholland, Zora Arkus-Duntov, Cecil B. DeMille, Leo Fender, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Les Baxter, John Lautner, Marlon Brando, Mark Twain, Hernan Cortes, The Surfaris, Bruce Brown, Martin Denny, Abraham Lincoln, Kathy (Gidget) Kohner, Wyatt Earp, Henry Ford, The Beatles, Chuck Yeager, Cliff May, Juan Cabrillo, Mark Hopkins, Kit Carson, Ed (Big Daddy) Roth, Edward Doheny, Buffalo Springfield, Robert E. Petersen, Dick Dale, Charles & Ray Eames, Yma Sumac, Joseph Stalin, Helen Hunt Jackson, The Grateful Dead, Sandra Dee, Hobie Alter, Sir Francis Drake, Dewey Webber, Les Paul, John F. Kennedy, Father Junipero Serra, Richard Neutra, Jose Figueroa, The Wrecking Crew, Richard Henry Dana, John Sutter, Frank Lloyd Wright, Duke Kahanamoku, Clark Gable, The Byrds, George Barris, Joe Quigg, Dave Brubeck, Von Dutch, The Beach Boys, Terry (Tube steak) Tracy, Frankie Avalon, Francisco de Coronado, Ed Sullivan, James Dean, The Jefferson Airplane… and many more

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