Lonnie Wilson: And the tension melted, May 21, 1969. In: Oakland Tribune.

Tensions between soldiers and demonstrators melted away yesterday when this pretty blonde girl rushed forward toward one National Guardsman. At first he tried to push her away, but she persisted and threw her arms around him in an emotional embrace. Soon both sides were smiling and a couple of hours later demonstrators drifted away the area near the home of Chancellor Roger Heyns.

Via The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California

Jamming terrestrial traffic, the orbiter “Columbia” creeps through Lancaster, California, after assembly in Palmdale. Photo: Kerby Smith. In: National Geographic, Vol. 159, No. 3, March 1981.

Hollywood, California. Night scene taken from the Hollywood hills, west of the Hollywood Bowl, showing the Freeway on the left and the Capitol Record building in center. Undated postcard, c1960.

Gold mining scene, during California Gold Rush. Tinted daguerreotype, c1850. Photo: Robert Vance.

Ansel Adams: Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Monument, California, 1942.

La Marjorie Motel, California. A 1959 Chevrolet El Camino pickup in the driveway. Photo: Frank J. Thomas.

(Via: Manitoba Museum of Finds Art manitobamuseum/flickr)

Race cars in turn passing grand stands during race at Culver City Speedway, Calif., 1927 (Via)
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Publication date: 1927