Dogtown

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Dogtown may refer to

• Dogtown, California, a ghost town in Mono County; also the name of a non-existent town in Calaveras County, California shown on some maps
• Dogtown, Massachusetts, a ghost town
• Dogtown, Los Angeles, California, an old established barrio of Northeast L.A. (not to be confused with the Venice Beach area)^{[citation needed]}
• Dogtown (Oakland, California), a part of the West Oakland neighborhood of Oakland, California
• Dogtown (film), a 1997 film
• Dogville, a 2003 movie starring Nicole Kidman
• Dogtown and Z-Boys, a 2001 documentary film about skateboarding
• An alternate name for the Clayton/Tamm neighborhood of Saint Louis, Missouri
• A nickname for the former Pacific Ocean Park beach area at the Santa Monica/Venice border in California, famed for its skateboarding and surfing culture, used as the setting for the 2005 Lords of Dogtown, based on Dogtown and Z-Boys
• Mining jargon for a group of ad-hoc huts or other shelters, typically near a mineral deposit ^{[citation needed]}
• A nickname for Birmingham, Michigan^{[citation needed]}
• A nickname for North Little Rock, Arkansas^[1]
• The former name of Magalia, California, a historical gold rush town in Butte County
• The home city of the Dogtown Dogs, an ersatz baseball team managed by Viktor Olavson; Dogtown in this usage is pronouced "dõ-tən."

[edit] References

1. ^ "'DOG TOWN' BURIES NICKNAME, BUT FEUD LIVES ON; The Talk of North Little Rock" by Judith Miller, New York Times, March 20, 1983, retrieved September 22, 2006.