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...beach boardwalk - is much more than a repository for old photographs, torn wet suits and beaten-up longboards. It's a reminder that Santa Cruz was the first place surfing occurred in the continental United States, when, in 1885, three Hawaiian princes who were attending a nearby military school rode waves on redwood boards. In the ensuing years, Santa Cruz became headquarters for surfboard shapers and wet-suit makers and fostered an entirely new beach culture, one that's become popular even in landlocked locales. The city even once sued Huntington Beach in Southern California over the rights...
...President-elect rode the rails to his Inauguration, his normally buoyant spirits muted by a passing landscape of shuttered factories and municipalities in default. A quarter of the nation's workforce was unemployed; what remained of its credit system was on life support. By the time Franklin Roosevelt reached Washington on the evening of March 2, local hotels were refusing to accept out-of-state checks. Eleanor Roosevelt wondered how her family would pay its tab at the Mayflower...
Tellingly, most of the event was confined to Cambridge and Somerville: the pantsless crowd rode from Alewife to Park Street and back, where they redressed...
...local directions to restaurant recommendations. The hotel also has a rooftop pool, and the RH restaurant, which focuses on fresh local ingredients. You'll be tracing the steps of rock stars here: Back in the '70s, when the hotel was still a Hyatt (nicknamed the "Riot Hyatt"), Led Zeppelin rode motorcycles in the hallway here, Jim Morrison swung from a balcony, and the opening scene of This is Spinal Tap was filmed on the roof. Check out Andaz for an introductory rate, starting at $295 per night; after Feb. 28, rates go up. 8401 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood...
...while visitors have embraced the service - nearly 10,000 foreigners rode Karsten's bikes last year - locals remain ambivalent about it. Those in the tourism industry understand that the city makes a lot of money from the legions of tourists who come to Amsterdam to get drunk and stoned. But as opponents point out, most do so in bars or cafés - not on the street. "We look at it with horror," says Ton Boon, a spokesman for the Centrum Borough, the quaint, canal-lined district in the heart of the city. "It brings in one kind of tourist...