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Pismo Beach is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.
Pismo Beach is the "Clam Capital" of California. The city holds the
"Clam Festival" every October, complete with clam chowder competitions
and a clam-themed parade. At the southern end of Price Street upon first entering
Pismo Beach, a gigantic concrete clam statue greets visitors. Clamming is restricted,
due to over-harvesting by humans and the protected sea otters.
Pismo means
"tar" in the language of the native Chumash Indians.
Pismo Beach car show
Pismo Beach has hosted one of the largest gatherings of custom and classical cars
every June, on the 3rd full weekend in the past.
Quads and dirt bikes for
recreational use have been run at the Pismo OHV dunes.
Pismo Beach is where
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck were headed in Ali Baba Bunny when they failed to take
that left turn at Albuquerque.
Pismo Beach is also where Bugs Bunny was to
sell books for Rambling House publishing in "By the Book Hare" while
Daffy got Thermopolis, Wyoming.
The codename for the last revision of Apple
Computer's PowerBook G3 is "Pismo", named after Pismo Beach. (The previous
PowerBook, "Lombard", takes its name from San Francisco's Lombard Street.)
In the film Clueless, relief supplies were sent to Pismo Beach due to the fictitious
Pismo Beach disaster.
Mentioned at the end of The Big Lebowski.
San Luis Obispo County is a county located along the Pacific Ocean in the Central Coast of the U.S. state of California, between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. As of 2000 its population was 246,681. The county seat is San Luis Obispo, with about 46,000 residents.
The county's distance from the large metro areas of San Francisco and Los Angeles has helped it to retain its rural character and reminders of old California abound. Commonly referred to as "the Central Coast," the area is more rural and agricultural than many other coastal regions in California. Father Junipero Serra founded the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa in 1772 and the Mission is today an active part of downtown San Luis Obispo (popularly referred to as SLO or SLO-town). The small size of the county's communities, scattered along the beaches, coastal hills, and mountains of the Santa Lucia range, provides a wide variety of coastal and inland hill ecologies to support many kinds of fishing, agriculture, and tourist activities.
The mainstays of the economy are California Polytechnic State University, tourism, and agriculture. San Luis Obispo County is the third largest producer of wine in California, surpassed only by Sonoma and Napa Counties. Wine grapes are by far the largest agricultural crop in the county, and the wine production they support creates a direct economic impact and a growing wine country vacation industry.
The town of San Simeon is located at the foot of the hill where newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst built the famed Hearst Castle. Other coastal towns include Cambria, Morro Bay and Cayucos to the north of San Luis Obispo city, and Avila Beach and the Five Cities to the south: Arroyo Grande, Grover Beach, Oceano, Pismo Beach and Shell Beach. Nipomo, just south of the Five Cities, borders northern Santa Barbara County. Inland, the cities of Paso Robles, Templeton, and Atascadero lie along the Salinas River, near the Paso Robles wine region. Just south of Cambria lies Harmony, the smallest town in California with a population of 18.
The prehistory of San Luis Obispo County is strongly influenced by the Chumash people who had significant settlement here at least as early as the Millingstone Horizon thousands of years before present. Important settlements existed, for example, in many coastal areas such as Morro Bay and Los Osos.
The Chumash are Native American people who historically inhabit chiefly central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, extending from Morro Bay in the north to Malibu in the south. They also occupied three of the Channel Islands: Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa and San Miguel; the smaller island of Anacapa was uninhabited. Modern place names with Chumash origins include Malibu, Lompoc, Ojai, Pismo Beach, Point Mugu, Piru, Lake Castaic, and Simi Valley.
Archaeological research demonstrates that the Chumash have deep roots in the Santa Barbara Channel area and lived along the southern California Coast for millennia.
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