Dogtown
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Dogtown may refer to
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[edit] Places
- Dogtown, Marin County, California, an unincorporated community (originally Woodville), in West Marin
- Dogtown, Mono County, California, a ghost town
- Dogtown, Oakland, California, a neighborhood
- Dogtown, San Joaquin County, California, a Gold Rush-era settlement, located in northern San Joaquin County, California[1]
- The former name of Magalia, California, a historical gold rush town in Butte County
- Dogtown, an old established barrio of Northeast Los Angeles[2]
- Dogtown, Massachusetts, a ghost town
- Area nicknames
- The beach area at the Santa Monica/Venice border in California, site of the former Pacific Ocean Park, famed for its skateboarding and surfing culture and used as the setting for the 2005 Lords of Dogtown
- The area surrounding Drake University (The Bulldogs) in Des Moines, Iowa
- The business area near Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, now known as Campustown
- The Clayton/Tamm, St. Louis neighborhood
- North Little Rock, Arkansas[3]
[edit] Films
- Dogtown (film), a 1997 film
- Dogtown and Z-Boys, a 2001 documentary film about skateboarding
- Dogville, a 2003 movie starring Nicole Kidman
- Lords of Dogtown, a 2005 film based on Dogtown and Z-Boys
[edit] Other
- Mining jargon for a group of ad-hoc huts or other shelters, typically near a mineral deposit[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Multimap.com
- ^ "The True Story of Dogtown and the Zephyr Boys" by Steve Cave, retrieved August 2, 2007.
- ^ "'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.
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