While the 1930s Santa Cruz surfers may have been shown as primarily white men, the sport dates back to 12th-century Polynesia and was first demonstrated in Santa Cruz by three Hawaiian princes in 1885.
But the grab bag of parts—cheese barons, Nazis—never comes together, and the old obsessions never acquire new force.
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Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Ransom Eli Olds was one of the most influential auto barons of his time, credited with being the first to design an assembly line for vehicle manfacturing.
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