Couple riding in an electric motor chair, also known as the Osborn Electriquette, at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. (📷 William M. McCarthy)

August 29, 1911: Ishi emerged from the California wilderness. Ishi was a member of the Yahi tribe and is believed to be the tribe’s last surviving member. #History #INDIGENOUS #indigenoushistory California History

Cucamonga Grape Festival - Regina Winery September 1967

Arches at San Luis Rey Mission, Oceanside, California 📷Edward W. Cochems

A CHP motorcycle cop pulls a cigar from the back of his bike, c. 1950. He had an ashtray there as well. This is in Roseville on Vernon Street when it was Highway 40, the transcontinental Highway. In the background are the Roseville Rail Yards.

Ocean Beach October 1961 from the spectacular Charles Cushman Collection at Indiana University. I can see the Ocean Beach Pavilion (here as the Surf Club) along with Skateland in the distance. #sfhistory purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/…

California’s Sunset Strip, 1952

#MarkeroftheWeek Birth of the Air Tanker Program in Willows, California hmdb.org/m.asp?m=172450 California History USDA Forest Service Dept. of Agriculture

Footage of Los Angeles, 1940s. x.com/Levandov_2/sta…

Nathan Harrison’s life was significant and remains of great consequence to San Diego and American history. [San Diego History, San Diego Heroes, American History] Learn more about him here: bit.ly/3P6w2ZU

Photo of Japanese American college students at an internment camp in Sacramento, California, 1942. Photo by Dorothea Lange.

A "Grey Dog" (Greyhound) climbs old Highway 40 after crossing the Summit Bridge at Donner Summit, c. 1950s. Between 1926 and 1962, this was the main transcontinental route into California before Interstate 80 was finished in 1962. Donner Lake in the background, 7000' elevation

Between 1909 and 1940, @Cal alums practically owned the US Open, winning a total of 43 Championships (17 singles, 15 doubles, 11 mixed doubles), and a Cal alum reached a final 60 times. Hazel Wightman won a total of 16 titles, Helen Wills 13, Helen Jacobs 8 and Don Budge 6.

California’s Sunset Strip, 1952

She deserved a Nobel Prize but didn't win. Chien-Shiung Wu was a pioneering Chinese-American experimental physicist who made significant contributions to nuclear physics. She was born today in 1912, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, before joining