BIZZY 2022 INTERPRETS CLARA BOW 1927

Chumash to Hard Cash (<1542 - 2022) is the working title of a book that has been a lot of work and a long time in coming. Delayed by Covid and other uncertainties for over two years, it is hoped that this book will be ready by the summer of 2023.

“Chumash to Hard Cash” details the arc and many flavors and layers of Malibu, from the time of the Chumash Indians - who lived a free life in a land of sun and abundance - to the present - when Malibu has become one of the most expensive, desirable places to live in the world.

And “Chumash to Hard Cash” is a tip of the hat to the Chumash Indians, who lived la dolce vita around the village called Humaliwo for many many centuries - until the Spanish appeared in their tall ships and pulled an Apocalypto - and changed everything.

POINT DUME FROM THE 1920S TO THE 2020S

The photographs in this book begin in Serra Retreat and Paradise Cove in the 1890s and run right up to the 21st Century - the point of this book is to show what Malibu was like going back 130 years, and then show what has changed and what hasn’t changed over more than a century.

Malibu has a lot of layers - natural and cultural, by land, sea and air. This book will show what is here, but also what isn’t here: Like turning Malibu Lagoon into a small craft harbor (1966) and a nuclear power plant at Malibu Seafoods (1967) and paving the Adamson House and turning it into a parking lot (1968).

WILD BIKINIS 1967 TO 2022

How to Stuff A Wild Bikini (1967)

Wild Bikinis at the Malibu (2022)

Chumash to Hard Cash will explain what is here and what is not here an detail how the people of Malibu have managed to maintain that 26 miles of scenic beauty into the Last, Best Place in Southern California.

THAT TIME THEY ALMOST DREDGED MALIBU LAGOON

AND TURNED IT INTO A SMALL CRAFT HARBOR IN 1965 OR SO.

The ETP = Estimated Time of Publishing for Chumash to Hard Cash is unknown. This book will be art directed by Joni Casimiro and self published at around 240 pages and printed 12” x 12” with gold foil and/or abalone shell on a black and/or white cover.