San Marino Los Angeles Tank Tops

Los Angeles Chargers Bolt Man

San Marino Los Angeles tropical travel poster.

Celebrate the history of your favorite football team with this unique design!

Los Angeles to San Francisco Rail poster in a beautiful retro style.

San Marino is a city in the San Gabriel Valley. Due to its large Taiwanese American population, it's sometimes affectionately referred to as "Chan Marino." It's also known for being home to the famed Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens. I explored it for my series, "California Fool's Gold," in 2008. https://ericbrightwell.com/2008/04/29/852/

Los Angeles California classic design

Los Angeles California classic design

The Los Angeles Skyhawks was a professional soccer club based in Los Angeles, California, that was a member of the American Soccer League. Founded as part of the American Soccer League's expansion to the west coast in 1976, they were the first professional sports team to be based in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. The ASL expanded in an attempt to compete with the North American Soccer League. Coming into the league with the Skyhawks were the Oakland (later Golden Bay) Buccaneers, Tacoma Tides, Sacramento Spirits, and the Utah Pioneers (later Golden Spikers). These teams formed the Western Division, while the Eastern Division had the established teams New York Apollo, Connecticut Yankees, Rhod

San Jose defeats Los Angeles in the 2016 Playoffs!

Going strong since the tecmo bowl days!

You...are a SUPER FAN...now SHOW IT with this AWESOME design!!!

The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team in San Francisco, California, that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957 before transferring to Phoenix, Arizona. They were named for the abundant California sea lion and harbor seal populations in the Bay Area. The 1909, 1922, 1925, and 1928 Seals were recognized as being among the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time.

Los Angeles City of Angels Bridge travel poster.

Arcadia is a suburb of the San Gabriel Valley which now has a population that is roughly two-thirds Asian-American (mostly Chinese and Taiwanese). It is thus often jokingly referred to as "Arcasia." I explored it in my series, "California Fool's Gold' in 2011. https://ericbrightwell.com/2011/01/04/california-fools-gold-exploring-arcadia-the-san-gabriel-valleys-community-of-homes/

Los Angeles Fantasy Football t-shirt.

You're all about that LA LYFE...now SHOW IT with this AWESOME design!!!

california bear with gold

I wrote a primer and mapped the San Fernando Valley, or simply, "The Valley," for "California Fool's Gold" in 2012. This watercolor map, however, dates to 2013 or so (when I experimenting with watercolors). It is primarily a region of the city of Los Angeles but also includes the municipalities of San Fernando and Burbank, as well as the unincorporated community of Universal City. https://ericbrightwell.com/2012/11/05/california-fools-gold-a-san-fernando-valley-primer/

Monterey Park is a suburban city in the San Gabriel Valley. It is notable for it's Chinese American majority, although it has undergone changes over the years, from a predominantly Taiwanese Chinese population to a mainland Chinese and Hong Konger population. I explored it for my series, "California Fool's Gold," in 2010. https://ericbrightwell.com/2010/09/23/california-fools-gold-exploring-monterey-park-%e8%92%99%e7%89%b9%e5%88%a9%e5%85%ac%e5%9b%ad/

Chargers vintage style

Even the Chargers were famous for fifteen minutes.

The San Francisco Seals were a minor league hockey team which played in the Western Hockey League from 1961 to 1967.

Just in time for Halloween... a friendly ghost cheering the Chargers on!

Show your true colors with this AWESOME design!

LA Sucks

Hacienda Heights is an unincorporated suburban community in the San Gabriel Valley. It is home to a large Taiwanese population and is home to the biggest Buddhist temple in the Western Hemisphere. I explored it for my series, "California Fool's Gold," in 2011. https://ericbrightwell.com/2011/06/19/california-fools-gold-exploring-hacienda-heights/

The California Golden Seals were a professional ice hockey club that competed in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1967 to 1976. Initially named the California Seals, the team was renamed the Oakland Seals partway through the 1967–68 season (on December 8, 1967) and then to the California Golden Seals in 1970, after two games as the Bay Area Seals. Based in Oakland, California, they played their home games at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena.

Groundbreaking for Metro's Foothill Extension Phase 2A took place in 2010. I walked its length, exploring along the way, for my series, "Nobody Drives in LA" in 2013. The line opened in 2015. https://ericbrightwell.com/2013/02/27/nobody-drives-in-la-exploring-the-gold-lines-foothill-extension-phase-2a/

San Francisco skyline

Angeles Forest, in the forest sense, is a wilderness area that extends from Los Angeles into neighboring counties. It's also, in the sense here, a sparsely-populated region of Los Angeles County. I wrote a primer about it for my series, "California Fool's Gold," and drew this map in 2011. https://ericbrightwell.com/2011/03/29/california-fools-gold-an-angeles-forest-primer/

An ink and watercolor map that I made of the Harbor District neighborhood of San Pedro for "California Fool's Gold." https://ericbrightwell.com/2018/01/12/california-fools-gold-exploring-san-pedro/

Check out this cool vintage logo!

Vintage poster promoting Los Angeles county's contribution to the 1915 San Diego Exposition or World's Fair. The fair was held to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and ran from March 1915 through 1917.

It's a VALLEY thing!

San Francisco and Los Angeles, like oil and vinegar. Wear your hometown pride shirt with pride.