Traffic jam on Los Angeles highway . Sunbathers at one of many beaches in Los Angeles area. People exercise for physical fitness and body building at Venice Beach ("Muscle Beach"). Several men and women perform acrobatic feats and a man (actor and body-builder Steve Reeves) lifts weights as crowd gathers to watch. Volleyball game at beach. People enjoy boating. Palm trees, roads and view of city.
The city of San Francisco, California. A car passes a cable car on the road. Cars come up a hill. The cable car underway on tracks. Cars parked along businesses on streets. Barricades lying on the roadside. View down street toward San Francisco Bay at the end of the street. A 3 masted sailing ship or barque docked in the Bay. Sign visible for "Nob Cleaners" up close on right side. Sign in distance for the Palace Theatre (also called Pagoda) at 1731 Powell Street, near intersection of Powell Street and Columbus Avenue in North Beach. A woman stands by a cable car doorway. A sign on trolley number 511 reads 'Powell and Market, Bay and Taylor'. Men stand and talk towards the rear of the cable car. Many cars including a police car on the street.
The wooden oil vessel 'Santa Paula' used to transport fuel on the high seas, set ablaze on the beach of San Francisco Bay at Hunters Point, California. Santa Paula's hulk burns after being condemned as a menace to shipping. Smoke and fire blaze from the ship as it burns. View of the vessel's hull on fire.
A film about state parks during the Great Depression in California, United States. Men along a rocky shore at Prairie Creek Redwood State Park. A camp site with tents. Family dines outdoors while camping. Civilian Conservation Corps men clear debris at a beach. CCC volunteers remove undergrowth. Men make redwood signs.
People dig in the sand and take out chunks of a bad-smelling substance, they believe is ambergris (a valuable perfume base, worth about $100 an ounce). They hold chunks of the material in their hands and happily pose for pictures on the beach and in their homes. (Note: although initially identified by a laboratory, as ambergris, the substance was soon determined not to be. Rather, it was found to be some sort of waste material, and was identified as waste from offshore shipping, by the Marin County Department of Public Works. New York experts described it as a vegetable substance, and other suggestions were made. But all authorities agreed it was not ambergris. Thus, the excitement quickly waned and life in Bolinas Beach returned to normal within a month.)
Presidential election of November 8, 1960. Voting for the 1960 Presidential election underway in United States. President Eisenhower arrives at a firehouse in Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania via helicopter to cast his vote. His wife, Mamie Eisenhower, also casts her vote. Senator John F. Kennedy and wife Jacqueline cast their votes at the Boston Public Library. Republican candidate Richard Nixon and wife Pat Nixon cast their votes in California. Republican Vice Presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. votes. Senator Lyndon Johnson is also seen voting. Ballots are fed into a ballot box marked 'Town of Barnstable' Kenned Kennedy with his wife and daughter appear before the press at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port Massachusetts as he leads the race for the White House. News that Kennedy is pulling ahead in the race is seen on a scrolling text marquee aka 'The Zipper' mounted on New York Times building at One Times Square in New York. A reported watches wire reports printing from Associated Press machines. Richard Nixon at a public meeting accepts his defeat and assures his support for Kennedy. Votes being counted and Kennedy wins the election. A man at a newsstand views the front page of the New York Mirror newspaper with headline, 'EXTRA KENNEDY!' 'John F. Kennedy after winning the election. He addresses a public meeting at Hyannis, Massachusetts with his wife by his side, and other Kennedy family members present on stage, including Joseph P. Kennedy Sr, Rose Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Edward Kennedy with Joan Bennett Kennedy, and the President-elect's sisters Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Jean Kennedy Smith, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John F. Kennedy accepts Nixon's greetings and talks about making a supreme effort to take America out of difficult times.
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