The Malibu We Knew

A community archive of the canyon and the coast

Items

• Pat on the night of the fire
  recording · 9 November 2018
  Four minutes, recorded at the kitchen table.
• Learning to swim at the cove
  note · the 1980s
  My mother taught all four of us in the cove below Point Dume, one summer each. She could not swim herself. She stood waist deep and told us what to do with our arms.
• Morning at Surfrider
  photo · 1974
  Six or seven boards on the sand, nobody in the water yet.
• I think that is my brother's board
  note · 1974
  The yellow one second from the left. He shaped it in our garage on Cross Creek and it never went straight.
• Cross Creek before the shops
  photo · 1971
  The lot where the shopping centre is now.
• The pier from the water
  photo · circa 1968
  Taken from a boat, looking back at the pilings.
• Sanitary district notice, 1962
  document · March 1962
  Two pages, mailed to residents about the sewer bond.